Format:
Online-Ressource (320 p)
ISBN:
9780691118628
Content:
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 discour
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Contents; Introduction; Tempering the Grandi's Appetite to Oppress: The Dedication and Intention of Machiavelli's Discourses; Diffcult Engagements: Private Passion and Public Service in Montaigne's Essais; The Bachelor State: Philosophy and Sovereignty in Bacon's New Atlantis; Hobbes's Revolution; Happy Tears: Baroque Politics in Descartes's Passions de l'âme; The Desire to Live: Spinoza's Ethics under Pressure; A Mind for Passion: Locke and Hutcheson on Desire; Rousseau's Quarrel with Gratitude; Parting with Prejudice: Hume, Identity, and Aesthetic Universality
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Vico, "Tenderness," and "Barbarism"Kant and the Relegation of the Passions; Beliefs and Emotions (from Stanley Fish to Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill); Contributors; Notes; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400827152
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691118628
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
