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Article Excerpt
Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850
Edited by Victoria Kahn, Nell Saccamano, and Daniela Coli
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006
This collection of essays on the intimate relationship between Western theories of emotion and Western political thought is organized according to traditional lines of intellectual history. Each contribution is dedicated to an influential European theorist, spanning the period from Bacon's writings to Bentham's. Each reading illuminates that writer's reconfiguration of the passions to accommodate changing models of political interest, belief, and human motivation. Read sequentially, the essays unfold with remarkable fidelity to this model. As one might expect of a collection of senior scholars, the readings are consistently fresh, nuanced, and deeply engaged with the writer in question. Thus, for example, John McCormick explores Machiavelli's Discourses from the new perspective of an imagined readership of young grandi, teasing out the author's intention to moderate their natural "desire to dominate the people." Timothy Hampton reads Montaigne's...
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