Contents
VICTORIA KAHN AND NEIL SACCAMANO
Tempering the Grandi’s Appetite to Oppress: The Dedication and Intention of Machiavelli’s Discourses
Difficult Engagements: Private Passion and Public Service in Montaigne’s Essais
The Bachelor State: Philosophy and Sovereignty in Bacon’s New Atlantis
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
Parting with Prejudice: Hume, Identity, and Aesthetic Universality
Vico, “Tenderness,” and “Barbarism”
Kant and the Relegation of the Passions HOWARD CAYGILL
Beliefs and Emotions (from Stanley Fish to Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill)