Politics and the passions, 1500-1850 /

Focusing on the new theories of human motivation that emerged during the transition from feudalism to the modern period, this is the first book of new essays on the relationship between politics and the passions from Machiavelli to Bentham. Contributors address the crisis of moral and philosophical...

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Další autoři: Kahn, Victoria Ann, Saccamano, Neil, 1952-, Coli, Daniela
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2006.
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  • 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'âme / 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.