Introduction by VICTORIA KAHN AND NEIL SACCAMANO 1 Tempering the Grandi's Appetite to Oppress: The Dedication by and Intention of Machiavelli's Discourses by JOHN P. MCCORMICK 7 Difficult Engagements: Private Passion and Public Service in by Montaigne's Essais by TIMOTHY HAMPTON 30 The Bachelor State: Philosophy and Sovereignty in Bacon's by New Atlantis by JOHN GUILLORY 49 Hobbes's Revolution by DANIELA COLI 75 Happy Tears: Baroque Politics in Descartes's Passions de l'ame by VICTORIA KAHN 93 The Desire to Live: Spinoza's Ethics under Pressure by JUDITH BUTLER 111 A Mind for Passion: Locke and Hutcheson on Desire by NANCY ARMSTRONG AND LEONARD TENNENHOUSE 131 Rousseau's Quarrel with Gratitude by PATRICK COLEMAN 151 Parting with Prejudice: Hume, Identity, and Aesthetic by Universality by NEIL SACCAMANO 175 Vico, "Tenderness," and "Barbarism" by RICCARDO CAPORALI 196 Kant and the Relegation of the Passions by HOWARD CAYGILL 217 Beliefs and Emotions (from Stanley Fish to Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill) by FRANCES FERGUSON 231 Contributors 251 Notes 253 Index 311
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