Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture

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Contents: Introduction, Brian Cummings and Freya Sierhius Part I Intersubjectivity, Ethics, Agency: Passion and intersubjectivity in early modern literature, Christopher Tilmouth Affective physics: affectus in Spinozaa (TM)s Ethica, Russ Leo Donnea (TM)s passions: emotion, agency and language, Brian Cummings. Part II Embodiment, Cognition, Identity: Melancholy, passions and identity in the Renaissance, Angus Gowland Montaignea (TM)s soul, Felicity Green Uncertain knowing, blind vision, and active passivity: subjectivity, sensuality and emotion in Miltona (TM)s epistemology, Katharine Fletcher. Part III Politics, Affects, Friendship: Friendship and freedom of speech in the work of Fulke Greville, Freya Sierhuis passion for the past: the politics of nostalgia on the early Jacobean stage, Isabel Karremann a Not truth but image maketh passiona (TM): Hobbes on instigation and appeasing, Ioannis D. Evrigenis. Part IV Religion, Devotion, Theology: a A sensible touching, feeling and gropinga (TM): metaphor and sensory experience in the English Reformation, Joe Moshenska a Tears of passiona (TM) and a inordinate lamentationa (TM): complicated grief in Donne and Augustine, Katrin Ettenhuber Passions, politics and subjectivity in Philip Massingera (TM)s Emperor of the East, Adrian Streete. Part V Philosophy and the Early Modern Passions: fallacy of a that withina (TM): Hamlet meets Wittgenstein, Daniella JancsA^3 a The greatest share of endless paina (TM): the spectral sacramentality of pain in Miltona (TM)s Paradise Lost, BjA rn Quiring a Not passiona (TM)s slavea (TM): Hamlet, Descartes and the passions, Stephan LaquA(c) Afterword, Brian Cummings and Freya Sierhuis Bibliography Index.

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