Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-253) and index.

Foreword: politics and passion / Charles Taylor -- Introduction: the emotions and the history of political thought / Leonard Ferry and Rebecca Kingston -- Explaining emotions / Am�elie Oksenberg Rorty -- Plato on shame and frank speech in democratic Athens / Christina Tarnopolsky -- The passions of the wise: Phron�esis, rhetoric, and Aristotle's passionate deliberation / Arash Abizadeh -- Troubling business: the emotions in Aquinas' philosophical psychology / Leonard Ferry -- The political relevance of the emotins from Descartes to Smith / Rebecca Kingston -- Passion, power, and impartiality in Hume / Sharon Krause -- Pity, pride, and prejudice: Rousseau on the passions / Ingrid Makus -- Feelings in the political philosophy of J.S. Mill / Marlene K. Sokolon -- Emotions, reasons, and judgments / Leah Bradshaw -- The politics of emotions / Robert C. Solomon.

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