Modern Philosophy Has No "Passion"

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Systems theorist Peter Fuchs reflects in an essay on why passion has become suspect and unmodern. "Living spontaneously is no longer considered legitimate; at best, it is a socially acceptable way of describing artists who are missing something: ironic realism seems to be the clearest effect of post-modernism. Passions have become strange – if they are to be shared, then only with dampened enthusiasm. To burn with passion, to decay from passion, to desire everything, to tremble, lament and scream, the wailing and the teeth grinding, lust and all the other seven sins, in short: the frenetic-panic in all its manifestations... We have for such phenomena 'limited generosity' (and a little humour) – perhaps in Salzburg at 'Jedermann'. In everyday life, they would simply terrify us and cause us to question whoever demonstrated them." Fuchs suggests going at the problem "with verve".