| Description |
vi, 314 p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-309) and index. |
| 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'ame / 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Political science.
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Emotions.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Kahn, Victoria Ann.
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Saccamano, Neil, 1952-
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Coli, Daniela.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| Cover Title |
Politics & the passions, 1500-1850 |
| ISBN |
0691118612 (alk. paper) |
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9780691118611 (alk. paper) |
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0691118620 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780691118628 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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