Politics and the passions, 1500-1850
By: edited by Victoria Kahn, Neil Saccamano, and Daniela Coli.
Contributors: Kahn, Victoria Ann.; Saccamano, Neil, 1952-; Coli, Daniela.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780691118611; 9780691118628
Subjects: Political science.; Emotions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tempering the Grandi's appetite to oppress : the dedication and intention of Machiavelli's discourses / John P. McCormick; title: Difficult engagements : private passion and public service in Montaigne's Essais / Timothy Hampton; title: The bachelor state : philosophy and sovereignty in Bacon's New Atlantis / John Guillory; title: Hobbes' revolution / Daniela Coli; title: Happy tears : baroque politics in Descartes' Passions de l'âme / Victoria Kahn; title: The desire to live : Spinoza's Ethics under pressure / Judith Butler; title: A mind for passion : Locke and Hutcheson on desire / Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse; title: Rousseau's quarrel with gratitude / Patrick Coleman; title: Parting with prejudice : Hume, identity, and aesthetic universality / Neil Saccamano; title: Vico, "tenderness," and "barbarism" / Riccardo Caporali; title: Kant and the relegation of the passions / Howard Caygill; title: Beliefs and emotions (from Stanley Fish to Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill) / Frances Ferguson.