Dangerous Emotions continues the line of inquiry begun in Abuses, taking the reader to Easter Island, Japan, Java, and Brazil as Lingis poses a new range of questions and brings his extraordinary descriptive skills to bear on innocence and the love of crime, the relationship between beauty and lust and between joy and violence. He explores the religion of animals, the force in blessing and in curses. When the sphere of work and reason breaks down, and in the course of catastrophic events we catch sight of cosmic time, our anxiety is mixed with exhilaration and ecstasy. Can philosophy understand not only acceptance of death but also joy in dying? Haunting and courageous, Lingis's writing has generated intense interest and debate among gender and cultural theorists as well as philosophers, and Dangerous Emotions is certain to introduce his work to an ever wider circle of readers.