Chapter 1 Introduction: Francis Bacon and the Theologico-political Reconfiguration of Desire in the Early Modern Period

Chapter 2 Appetites, Matter and Metaphors: Aristotle, Physics I, 9 (192a22–23), and Its Renaissance Commentators

Chapter 3 Lists of Motions: Francis Bacon on Material Disquietude

Chapter 5 Prolongatio Vitae and Euthanasia in Francis Bacon

Chapter 6 Francis Bacon’s Flux of the Spirits and Renaissance Paradigms of Hybridity and Adaptation

Chapter 7 Cupido, sive Atomus; Dionysus, sive Cupiditas: Francis Bacon on Desire

Chapter 8 The Ethics of Motion: Self-Preservation, Preservation of the Whole, and the ‘Double Nature of the Good’ in Francis Bacon

Chapter 9 Francis Bacon on the Motions of the Mind

Chapter 10 Francis Bacon on the Moral and Political Character of the Universe

Chapter 11 A More Perfect Union: Bacon’s Correspondence of Form and Policy

Chapter 12 Bacon’s Idola in Vernacular Translations: 1600–1900