Contents

Introduction

VICTORIA KAHN AND NEIL SACCAMANO

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’s 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

Contributors

Notes

Index