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.