Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850

Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Tempering the Grandi’s Appetite to Oppress: The Dedication and Intention of Machiavelli’s Discourses......Page 14
Diffcult Engagements: Private Passion and Public Service in Montaigne’s Essais......Page 37
The Bachelor State: Philosophy and Sovereignty in Bacon’s New Atlantis......Page 56
Hobbes’s Revolution......Page 82
Happy Tears: Baroque Politics in Descartes’s Passions de l’âme......Page 100
The Desire to Live: Spinoza’s Ethics under Pressure......Page 118
A Mind for Passion: Locke and Hutcheson on Desire......Page 138
Rousseau’s Quarrel with Gratitude......Page 158
Parting with Prejudice: Hume, Identity, and Aesthetic Universality......Page 182
Vico, “Tenderness,” and “Barbarism”......Page 203
Kant and the Relegation of the Passions......Page 224
Beliefs and Emotions (from Stanley Fish to Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill)......Page 238
Contributors......Page 258
Notes......Page 260
E......Page 318
L......Page 319
R......Page 320
Z......Page 321