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 discourse in the early modern period; the necessity of inventing a new way of describing the relation between reflection and action, and private and public selves; the disciplinary regulation of the body; and the ideological constitution of identity. The collection as a whole asks whether a discours
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9781400827152, 9781282087217, 9786612087219, 1400827159, 1282087215, 6612087218
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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
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English
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