Shaping Enlightenment Politics: The Social and Political Impact of the First and Third Earls of Shaftesbury

ISBN-13: 9783631671634 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 294 str.

Patrick Muller

Opis

This volume investigates the impact the first and third Earls of Shaftesbury had on Enlightenment thought. The focus is on both their tangible actions on the political stage of the day and on the more general intellectual repercussions of what these men stood for in word and deed. As a result, "Shaping Enlightenment Politics" offers important re-evaluations of what two towering figures of the age had to contribute to much-contested topics such as slavery, the discourse of civic humanism, or party politics.

Spis treści

Shaftesbury - John Locke - Andrew Marvell - Political Philosophy - Republicanism - Cosmopolitanism - Party Politics - Feminism - James Harrington - John Molesworth - American Constitution - William Godwin - Sarah Fielding - Commonwealth

O autorze

Patrick Müller studied English, German, and Philosophy in Münster (Germany) and Edinburgh (United Kingdom), receiving his PhD from Münster University. He worked for The Shaftesbury Project at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) and has lectured and published widely on both eighteenth-century literature and contemporary fiction. He is currently teacher of English at the German Federal Office of Languages.