Politics and the passions, 1500-1850

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Saccamano, Neil,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2006.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10284161
Table of Contents:
  • Tempering the Grandi's appetite to oppress : the dedication and intention of Machiavelli's Discourses / John P. McCormick
  • Difficult engagements : private passion and public service in Montaigne's Essais / Timothy Hampton
  • The bachelor state : philosophy and sovereignty in Bacon's New Atlantis / John Guillory
  • Hobbes' revolution / Daniela Coli
  • Happy tears : baroque politics in Descartes' Passions de l'γame / Victoria Kahn
  • The desire to live : Spinoza's Ethics under pressure / Judith Butler
  • A mind for passion : Locke and Hutcheson on desire / Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse
  • Rousseau's quarrel with gratitude / Patrick Coleman
  • Parting with prejudice : Hume, identity, and aesthetic universality / Neil Saccamano
  • Vico, "tenderness," and "barbarism" / Riccardo Caporali
  • Kant and the relegation of the passions / Howard Caygill
  • Beliefs and emotions (from Stanley Fish to Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill) / Frances Ferguson.