Passion's triumph over reason: a history of the moral imagination from spenser to rochester

Christopher Tilmouth's study of Early Modern ideas of emotion, self-indulgence, and self-control explores a series of philosophical authors in relation to poets and dramatists of the period 1580 to 1680. Aristotle, Aquinas, Augustine, and Hobbes receive detailed treatment, alongside Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, Milton, and the Earl of Rochester. INDICE: Introduction; Part One: Governance and the Passions; 1: Positions in early modern moral thought; 2: Spenser, psychomachia, and the limits of governance; 3: Hamlet 'lapsed in passion'; 4: Renaissance tragedy and the fracturing of familiar terms; 5: Augustinian and Aristotelian influences from Herbert to Milton; Part Two: The Rise and Fall of Libertinism; 6: Hobbes: fear, power, and the passions; 7: The Restoration ethos of libertinism; 8: Rochester: the disappointments of Hobbism and libertinism; Coda; Bibliography of references

• ISBN: 978-0-19-959304-0
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 432
• Fecha Publicación: 11/11/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés