Selected Bibliography:
Anthony Ashley Cooper,
third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
NO LONGER UPDATED
Bibliography
Laurent Jaffro, "Bibliographie
des études relatives à Anthony Ashley Cooper, troisième Comte
de Shaftesbury (1671-1713)". An extensive but unannotated
secondary bibliography
(http://www-philo.univ-paris1.fr/Jaffro/Shaftesbury.htm) (NO
LONGER UPDATED).
Michael Gill, SEP
entry on Shaftesbury.
The
Shaftesbury Project Bibliography.
Editions
- Collected Works
- Standard Edition: Shaftesbury, Complete Works, Selected
Letters and Posthumous Writings, in English with German
Translation, ed. W. Benda, G. Hemmerich, W. Lottes, U.
Schöldbauer, E. Wolff, et alii (Stuttgart: Fromman-Holzboog,
1981-) (in progress). Five series: I, "Æsthetics"; II,
"Moral and Political Philosophy"; III, "Letters"; IV,
"Commentaries"; "Documents and indexes". About 21 volumes
are planned. Much has been said on this project that
rearranges Shaftesbury's works and does not follow the
original order of Characteristics. See Richard B. Wolf's
review in Modern Philology, 81 (1983-1984), 311-316.
Available volumes:
- I, "Æsthetics":
- Vol. I, 1 (1981): Soliloquy: Or,
Advice to an Author; A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm;
The Adept Ladys; Epigrams. English and German.
- Vol. I, 2 (1989): Miscellaneous
Reflections. English and German.
- Vol. I, 3 (1992): Sensus Communis: An
Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour (English and
German); Instructions to the Printer and to the
Engraver (English and German); Rough Draft of 2nd
Instructions; Additions, Emendations, and
Annotations to the 1st Edition of the
Characteristicks; Additions and Supplements to The
Sociable Enthusiast (1704), preparatory to the 1st
edition of The Moralists (1709).
- Vol. I, 4 (1993): Printed Notes to
the Characteristicks (English and German);
Shaftesbury´s Index to the Characteristicks; Latin
Authors Quoted in the Characteristicks (Latin and
German).
- Vol. I, 5 (2001): Second Characters /
Schriften zur Kunst.
- II, "Moral and Political Philosophy":
- Vol. II, 1 (1987): The Moralists; The
Sociable Enthusiast. English.
- Vol. II, 2 (1984): An Inquiry
Concerning Virtue, or Merit (1711); An Inquiry
Concerning Virtue (1699). English.
- Vol. II, 3 (1998): Des Maizeaux's
French translation of parts of An Inquiry Concerning
Virtue. English and German.
- P. Ayres, ed., Characteristicks of Men,
Manners, Opinions, Times (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999), 2 vols.
Based on the text of the first edition of 1711, as revised
by Shaftesbury himself in preparation for the posthumous 2d
edition of 1714 (from Shaftesbury's own copy in the British
Library, C.28.g.16). This edition is the closest to
Shaftesbury's editorial principles. Includes the engraved
plates of the 2d edition.
- L. E. Klein, ed., Characteristics of Men,
Manners, Opinions, Times (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999).
This edition is based on the text of the second edition of
1714 (BL 231.g.1), but does not include "The Notion of the
Historical Draught or Tablature of the Judgment of Hercules"
nor the emblematic engravings. Spelling and punctuation have
been modernized; Greek and Latin quotations have been
translated. Reading is facilitated.
- Other Important Editions:
- Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions,
Times, 1st ed, 3 vol. Vol. I: A Letter Concerning
Enthusiasm ; Sensus Communis, or an Essay on the Freedom
of Wit and Humour ; Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author.
Vol. II: An Inquiry Concerning Virtue, or Merit ; The
Moralists: a Philosophical Rhapsody. Vol. III:
Miscellaneous Reflections on the Preceding Treatises, and
other Critical Subjects (London: John Darby, Jr., 1711;
repr. Hildescheim: Georg Olms, 1978).
- 2nd ed. correct., 3 vol. (London: John
Darby, Jr., 1714; 1715 according to the colophon). Adds
engraved plates by Simon Gribelin. Adds A Notion of the
Historical Draught or Tablature of the Judgment of
Hercules. Some copies add A Letter Concerning Design.
- 5th ed., 3 vol. (Londres, 1732). Adds A
Letter Concerning Design.
This text has been reedited with the original
illustrations and Shaftesbury's index by D. Den Uyl:
Characteristics, 3 vol., Indianapolis, Liberty Fund, 2001.
See below "electronic resources".
- Characteristicks..., 4 vol. (Glasgow,
1758). The new 4th volume not only includes the Judgment
of Hercules, A Letter Concerning Design, but adds the
Letters to a Student at the University, the Letters from
the Right Honourable the Late Earl of Shaftesbury to
Robert Molesworth, some material from Birch's account
(below), and the preface to Whichcote's Select Sermons.
- "A Character of Augustus, Maecenas and
Horace; with some Reflections on the Works of Horace, by
the Earl of Shaftesbury", in Three Dissertations, ed. G.
Turnbull, London, 1740. A selection from Characteristics.
- The only 1st volume of Characteristicks was
edited by W. M. Hatch (London: Longmans, Green and Co,
1870). This edition includes Hatch's interesting
appendices.
- Individual Works
- "Preface" to Select Sermons of Dr. Whichcot
[sic] (London, 1698).
- An Inquiry Concerning Virtue, in two
Discourses (London, 1699). According to the fourth Earl's
Life Sketch (below), this edition was due to John Toland's
initiative. The 1711 corrected version in Characteristicks
has been edited with material from the 1699 text by D.
Walford: An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit (Manchester,
Manchester UP, 1977).
- Paradoxes of State, Relating to the Present
Juncture of Affairs in England and the Rest of Europe
(London, 1702).
- The Sociable Enthusiast (1704). Privately
printed first version of The Moralists.
- A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm (London,
1708). Recent edition by R. B. Wolf: An Old-Spelling,
Critical Edition of Shaftesbury's Letter Concerning
Enthusiasm and Sensus Communis: An Essay on the Freedom of
Wit and Humour (London: Garland Pub., 1988).
- The Moralists, a Philosophical Rhapsody
(London, 1709).
- Sensus Communis: An Essay on the Freedom of
Wit and Humour (London, 1709). Recent edition by R. B. Wolf
(above).
- Soliloquy: or, Advice to an Author (London,
1710).
- A Notion of the Historical Draught or
Tablature of Hercules, According to Prodicus (London, 1713).
- Several Letters written by a Noble Lord to a
Young Man at the University (London, 1716).
- Letters from the Right Honourable the Late
Earl of Shaftesbury to Robert Molesworth, ed. John Toland,
(London, 1721).
- A Letter Concerning the Art or Science of
Design, in The Present State of the Republick of Letters, 1
(1728).
- "Some reflections on the characters of
Augustus, Maecenas, and Horace, and on the works of Horace,
by the Earl of Shaftsbury", in Abbé Vertot, ed. G. Turnbull,
Three dissertations: one on the characters of Augustus,
Horace and Agrippa... (London: 1740): 20-67. This material
relating especially to Horace comes from Characteristics and
from Shaftesbury's letters to Pierre Coste.
- Letters of the Earl of Shaftesbury, Author of the
Characteristicks, collected into one volume (Glasgow, 1746).
Selected Manuscripts
- The main collection is in the Shaftesbury Papers, Public
Record Office, London ("A collection of documents, also
entry-books of letters, written by, and correspondence of, the
third Earl of Shaftesbury"). The Shaftesbury Papers were gifted
to the PRO by the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury in 1871. Other
elements of Shaftesbury's correspondence are included in other
collections and some of them have been published by T. Forster
and R. A. Barrel (below).
Short selection of manuscripts and documents among the
Shaftesbury Papers:
- PRO 30/24/20
- PRO 30/24/20/143: Letters to Michael
Ainsworth (1707-1710).
- PRO 30/24/21
- PRO 30/24/21/226: Sketch of the Life of
the third Earl of Shaftesbury by his son the fourth
Earl.
- PRO 30/24/21/227: De la vertu et créance
d'une divinité. Des Maizeaux's translation of parts of
Inquiry Concerning Virtue.
- PRO 30/24/22: Letters (1703-1711).
- PRO 30/24/23
- PRO 30/24/23/10-12: Catalogues of
Shaftesbury's libraries in Chelsea and Saint-Giles.
- PRO 30/24/23/8-9: Letters (1711-1713).
- PRO 30/24/24
- PRO 30/24/24/16-17: Two manuscript
volumes containing Sermons by Benjamin Whichcote. This
material was originally the property of the unitarian
Thomas Firmin.
- PRO 30/24/26
- PRO 30/24/26/1: Virtuoso copy-book
(1712-1713), containing A Letter Concerning the Art or
Science of Design ; Judgment of Hercules ; Instructions
for Mr Darby, etc.
- PRO 30/24/26/4-6: Annotated copy of The
Sociable Enthusiast, preparatory to The Moralists, and
supplements to The Sociable Enthusiast.
- PRO 30/24/26/7: Pathologia sive Explicatio
Affectum Humanorum (1706).
- PRO 30/24/26/8: Jugement de Monsieur
Leibnitz sur les différents ouvrages qui composent les
Characteristicks. Later published in Des Maizeaux, ed.,
Recueil de diverses pièces sur la philosophie...
(Amsterdam, 1720).
- PRO 30/24/26/9: English translation of the
preceding.
- PRO 30/24/27
- PRO 30/24/27/10: Askêmata, two notebooks
(1698-1712).
- PRO 30/24/27/14: Design of a Socratick
History (1703-1707).
- PRO 30/24/27/15: Notebook on Art,
Painting, Ancient and Modern Masters... (Naples, 1712).
Project of Second Characters, or the Language of Forms,
including the draft of Plasticks.
- PRO 30/24/27/16: "Notes not set down in
the margin of my little Colon-edition". Notes on
Epictetus; the "Colon-edition" is Hieronymus Wolf's
Epictetus et Cebes, 1595.
- PRO 30/24/27/27: The Picture of Cebes,
Disciple of Socrates. Translation of Tabula Cebetis.
- PRO 30/24/45/80: Miscellaneous letters.
- PRO 30/24/46A/81: The Adept Ladys or the
Angelick Sect... (1701-1702).
- PRO 30/24/47: Instructions (1712) for the 2nd
edition of Characteristicks.
- Manuscripts from the PRO are to be published and
some of them are already edited in the Standard Edition (above).
Some of these manuscripts have been published or translated in
other editions (below).
- Another lesser-known though important collection is in the
Harris Papers, Hampshire Record Office, Winchester (essentially
"Papers of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
(1671-1713)"). The philosopher and grammarian James Harris
(1709-1780) was Shaftesbury's nephew and had direct access to
the papers of his uncle. According to the Hampshire Record
Office catalogue, this collection includes: Letters (in French)
to the 3rd Earl from Pierre Bayle; letters (in French) from
Coste; letters (in French) from Jean Le Clerc ; letters from
Benjamin Furly; letters to the 3rd Earl from various
correspondents; letter-book with copies of letters from the 3rd
Earl of Shaftesbury to various correspondents; other letters and
documents; copies of letters from 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury to Mr
Coste, prepared for publication; Chronology of Horace, according
to the idea of a letter to Mr Coste, 15 Nov 1706; small
notebooks of notes on The Satires and The Epistles; papers and
notes collected for a Life of the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury by
James Harris, etc.
Published Manuscripts
- See Standard Edition above.
- Some material from unpublished papers was used by
Thomas Birch in General Dictionary, vol. IX (1739): 179-186, and
had been provided by Shaftesbury's nephew, Jame Harris.
- Harris supplied John Upton with Shaftesbury's
annotations on Epictetus. See J. Upton, ed., Epicteti quae
supersunt dissertationes ab Arriano collectae nec non
Enchiridion et fragmenta Graece et Latine ... cum integris
Jacobi Schegkii et Hieronymi Wolfii selectisque aliorum doctorum
annotationibus, 2 vol. (London: Thomae Woodward, 1741).
- The first scholar who drew some informations from
the Shaftesbury Papers was Thomas Fowler in his Shaftesbury and
Hutcheson (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington,
1882).
- Benjamin Rand edited the Askêmata (PRO
30/24/27/10) in The Life, Unpublished Letters, and Philosophical
Regimen of Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury (London: Swan
Sonnenschein, 1900). This version is widely cited but unreliable
and incomplete. L. Jaffro has translated into French the
complete manuscript of Askêmata (below).
- B. Rand also edited the texts of the projected
Second Characters (PRO 30/24/27/15) in Second Characters, or the
Language of Forms, by the Right Honourable Anthony, Earl of
Shaftesbury (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1914). widely cited, but
the edition of the main piece, Plasticks, is very defective.
- See also F. H. Heinemann, "The philosopher of
enthusiasm. With material hitherto unpublished", Revue
Internationale de Philosophie, 6 (1952): 294-322.
- Many documents from the Shaftesbury Papers,
relating to The Moralists, including drafts and letters, have
been carefully edited by H. Meyer Limae Labor: Untersuchungen
zur Textgenese und Druckgeschichte von Shaftesburys "The
Moralists" (Francfort: Peter Lang, 1978).
- Some unpublished letters have been edited by T.
Forster in his Original Letters of John Locke, Algernon Sidney
and Lord Shaftesbury (London, 1830; 2nd ed., London, 1847), by
B. Rand (above), and by R. A. Barrel in his Shaftesbury and 'le
Refuge français'. Correspondence (Lewiston: E. Mellen Press,
1989).
Selected
Translations
- French
- Pierre Coste, Essai sur l'usage de la
raillerie, (La Haye: 1710). Translation of Sensus Communis.
It has long been ascribed to J. Van Effen, but there is new
evidence that Pierre Coste was the translator. See J.
Dybikowski, "Letters from Solitude : Pierre Coste’s
Correspondence with the Third Earl of Shaftesbury", in
Réseaux de correspondance à l'âge classique (XVIe-XVIIIe
siècle), Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, Jens Häseler, Antony
McKenna (ed.), Saint-Etienne, Presses Universitaires de
Saint-Etienne, 2006, p.109-133.
- D. Diderot, Principes de la Philosophie
Morale ou Essai de M. S*** sur le mérite et la vertu. Avec
Réflexions (Paris, 1745); ed. P. Casini and J. F. Spink in
Œuvres Complètes de Denis Diderot, I, "Le Modèle Anglais"
(Paris: Hermann, 1975). Translation of Inquiry Concerning
Virtue, or Merit.
- J.-B. Robinet, Œuvres de Mylord Comte de
Shaftsbury... [sic], 3 vol. (Genève: 1769). Translation of
Characteristicks.
- A. Leroy, ed., Mylord Shaftesbury. A Letter
Concerning Enthusiasm (Paris: PUF, 1930). English text and
French translation.
- L. Jaffro, ed., Exercices (Paris: Aubier,
1993). Annotated translation of Askêmata, PRO 30/24/27/10.
- D. Lories, ed., Soliloque ou conseil à un
auteur (Paris: L'Herne, 1994). Translation of Soliloquy.
- Italian
- P. Casini, ed., I Moralisti: Rapsodia
filosofica (Bari: Laterza, 1971). Translation of The
Moralists.
- E. Garin, ed., Lettera sull'entusiasmo (Milano:
Rizzoli, 1984). Translation of Letter Concerning Enthusiasm.
- German
- J. J. Spalding, Die Sittenlehrer, oder
Erzählung philosophischer Gespräche, welche die Natur und
die Tugend betreffen (Berlin, 1745). Translation of The
Moralists.
- C. Seidel and G. E. Scheidhauer , Soliloquium
von den wahren Eigenschaften eines Schriftstellers
(Magdebourg and Leipzig, 1746). Translation of Soliloquy.
- [J. J. Spalding?], Untersuchung über die
Tugend (Berlin, 1747). Translation of Inquiry Concerning
Virtue.
- H. W. von Logau und Altendorf, Entwurf der
historischen Zeichnung, oder Schilderei, von dem Urteile des
Herkules (Leipzig, 1748). Translation of Judgment of
Hercules.
- Translation of Sensus Communis in F. C.
Oetinger, Die Wahreit des Sensus Communis oder des
allgemeinen Sinnes (Tübingen, 1753).
- C. A. Wichmann, Characteristicks, oder
Schilderungen von Menschen, Sitten, Meynungen und Zeiten
(Leipzig, 1768). Translation of Characteristicks, with
Leibniz's remarks.
- J. G. Herder, Naturhymnus von Shaftesbury [
sic], 1800, in Herder's Sämmtliche Werke, ed. B. Suphan,
XXVII (Berlin: 1877-1913). Translation of parts of The
Moralists.
- Translation into German of Shaftesbury's
whole work. See above, Standard Edition.
- Spanish
- D. A. Sampietro, ed., Del soliloquio o
consejos al escritor (Buenos Aires: Instituto de Filosofía,
Universidad Nacional de la Plata, 1972). Translation of
Soliloquy.
- A. Andreu, éd., Sensus communis : Ensayo
sobre la libertad de ingenio y humor (Valencia: Pre-Textos,
1995).
- J. V. Arregui and Pablo Arnau, ed., Los
Moralistas (Barcelona: Ediciones Internacionales
Universitarias, 1997). Translation of The Moralists.
- A. Andreu, ed., Carta sobre el entusiasmo
(Barcelona: Crítica, 1997). Translation of Letter Concerning
Enthusiasm.
- A. Andreu, ed., Investigación sobre la virtud
o el mérito (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Científicas, 1998). Translation of Inquiry Concerning Virtue.
- Hungarian (thanks to Endre Szécsényi)
- Miklós Szenczi, ed., Értekezés az erényről és
az érdemről, tr. Judit Aniot (Budapest: Magyar Helikon,
1969, [rev.] 2004; Budapest: Kossuth, 1994). Translation of
Inquiry.
- György Márkus, ed., A moralisták: filozófiai
rapszódia, tr. Ferenc Fehér, in Brit moralisták a XVIII.
században [British Moralists in the 18th century] (Budapest:
Gondolat, 1977). Translation of The Moralists.
- Endre Szécsényi, ed., Sensus communis: esszé
a szellem és a jó kedély szabadságáról, tr. András Harkányi
(Budapest: Atlantisz, 2007, forthcoming). Translation of
Sensus Communis.
Biographies
- R. Voitle, The Third Earl of Shaftesbury,
1671-1713 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1984). The
only modern biography. Draws much material from the
Shaftesbury Papers.
- The first biography was written by the fourth
Earl of Shaftesbury: Sketch of the Life of the third Earl of
Shaftesbury, in B. Rand, ed., The Life, Unpublished Letters,
and Philosophical Regimen of Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury
(London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1900): xvii-xxxi. The source is
the manuscript PRO 30/24/21/226 (above).
- The same source was used by Thomas Birch in his
General Dictionary, vol. IX (1739): 179-186.
Criticism
- Collection
- F. Brugère and M. Malherbe, ed., Shaftesbury. Philosophie
et politesse (Paris: Champion, 2000). It contains several
papers from an international conference held at the
University of Nantes (France), September 1996. With
contributions by: F. Badelon, J.-P. Larthomas, D. Lories, L.
Jaffro, L. E. Klein, F. Brugère, M. Malherbe, B.
Saint-Girons, J.-M. Vienne, J. V. Arregui, G. Stenger, E.
Martin-Haag.
- Monographs and Articles
- Works on Shaftesbury and the Enlightenment
- S. Grean, Shaftesbury's Philosophy of
Religion and Ethics: a Study in Enthusiasm (Athens,
Ohio: UP, 1967). Extensive treatment, but does not take
the Shaftesbury Papers into consideration.
- L. E. Klein, Shaftesbury and the Culture
of Politeness: Moral Discourse and Cultural Politics in
Early 18th-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge UP,
1994). Puts Shaftesbury in his cultural-political
context.
- L. Jaffro, Ethique de la communication et
art d'écrire. Shaftesbury et les Lumières anglaises
(Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1998).
- I. Rivers, Reason, Grace, and Sentiment.
A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in
England, 1660-1780, vol. 2, Shaftesbury to Hume
(Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000). Pays close attention to
Shaftesbury's impact on the Scottish Enlightenment.
- F. Crispini, L'etica dei moderni.
Shaftesbury e le ragioni della virtu (Roma: Donzelli,
2000).
- Works on Shaftesbury and the Cambridge Platonists
- E. Cassirer, "Shaftesbury und die
Renaissance des Platonismus in England", Vorträge der
Bibliothek Warburg, IX, 24 (1930-1931): 136-155.
Starting point for modern studies.
- E. Cassirer, The Platonic Renaissance in
England, trans. J. Pettegrove, (London: Nelson, 1953).
Long the standard study of Shaftesbury's neoplatonism.
- M. Micheletti, "Animal capax religionis".
Da Benjamin Whichcote a Shaftesbury (Perugia: Benucci,
1984).
- M. B. Gill, "The Religious Rationalism of
Benjamin Whichcote", Journal of the History of
Philosophy, 37, 2 (1999): 271-300.
- D. Grossklaus, Natürliche Religion und
aufgeklärte Gesellschaft: Shaftesburys Verhältnis zu den
Cambridge Platonists (Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2000).
The major essay since Cassirer's.
- Literary Theory
- R. L. Brett, The Third Earl of
Shaftesbury: a Study in Eighteenth-Century Literary
Theory (London: Hutchinson's University Library, 1951).
Useful but dated.
- E. Wolff, Shaftesbury und seine Bedeutung
für die englische Literatur des 18 Jahrhunderts. Der
Moralist und die literarische Form (Tübingen: Nimeyer,
1960).
- R. Marsh, Four Dialectical Theories of
Poetry: an Aspect of English Neoclassical Criticism
(Chicago: Chicago UP, 1965). A fine discussion of
Soliloquy.
- M. Prince, Philosophical Dialogue in the
British Enlightenment. Theology, Æsthetics and the Novel
(Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996). Close reading of
Shaftesbury's poetics.
- Æsthetic
- J. E. Sweetman, "Shaftesbury's Last
Commission", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld
Institutes, 19 (1956): 110-116. On Shaftesbury's
commission to Paolo de Matteis of a portrait of the
philosopher as a dying man.
- J. Stolniz , "On the Significance of Lord
Shaftesbury in Modern Æsthetic Theory”, Philosophical
Quarterly, 11 (1961): 97-113.
- W. Lottes, "The Judgment of Hercules.
Shaftesbury und die ut pictura poesis Tradition", Anglia,
107 (1989): 330-343.
- L. Pestilli, "Lord Shaftesbury e Paolo de
Matteis: Ercole al bivio tra teoria e pratica", Storia
dell'arte, 68 (1990): 95-121. On the Judgment of
Hercules.
- D. Leatherbarrow, "Plastic Character, or,
How to Twist Morality with Plastics", Res, 21 (1992):
124-141.
- P. Mortensen, " Shaftesbury and the
Morality of Art Appreciation", Journal of the History of
Ideas, 55, 4 (1994): 631-650.
- J. V.Arregui, "La teologia de la belleza
en Shaftesbury y Hutcheson", Thémata, 13 (1995): 11-35.
- R. Paulson, The Beautiful, Novel, and
Strange: Æsthetics and Heterodoxy (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1996).
- F. Brugère, Théorie de l'art et
philosophie de la sociabilité selon Shaftesbury (Paris:
Champion, 1999).
- B. Schmidt-Haberkamp, Die Kunst der
Kritik: zum Zusammenhang von Ethik und Ästhetik bei
Shaftesbury (Münich: Fink, 2000). Extensive treatment.
- Wessely A., “The Knowledge of an Early
Eighteenth-Century Connoisseur: Shaftesbury and the Fine
Arts”, Acta Historia Artium Hung., 41 (1999-2000),
279-309. Very fine study of Shaftesbury's
connoisseurship, with new views on the illustrations of
Characteristics.
- D. Townsend, Hume's Æsthetic Sentiments
(London: Routledge, 2001). A good deal on Shaftesbury.
- R. Glauser, “Aesthetic Experience in Shaftesbury”, The
Aristotelian Society, sup. vol. LXXVI (2002): 25-54. A
major study, with new views on "disinterestedness".
- Woldt I., Architektonik der Formen in
Shaftesburys 'Second Characters' (München: Deutscher
Kunstverlag, 2004). The first monography on this set of
manuscripts.
- Moral and Political Philosophy
- E. L. Tuveson, "The Origin of the Moral
Sense", Huntington Library Quarterly, 11 (1947-1948):
241-259. The first essay on the connection between
Shaftesbury and Thomas Burnet.
- R. Voitle, "Shaftesbury's Moral Sense",
Studies in Philology, 52 (1955): 17-38.
- C. Taylor, Sources of the Self. The
Making of Modern Identity (Cambridge: Cambridge UP,
1989). Good overview. Overrates Shaftesbury's
sentimentalism.
- S. Darwall, The British Moralists and the
Internal 'Ought' (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995). A
major account of Shaftesbury's place in the history of
moral philosophy.
- L. Jaffro, "La constitution de la
doctrine du sens moral: Thomas Burnet, Shaftesbury,
Hutcheson", in Le Sens moral. Une histoire de la
philosophie morale de Locke à Kant, ed. L. Jaffro
(Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2000), 11-46.
- Stoicism
- E. A. Tiffany, "Shaftesbury as Stoic",
Publications of the Modern Language Association, 38
(1923): 642-684. A starting point.
- F. Uehlein, Kosmos und Subjektivität.
Lord Shaftesburys Philosophical Regimen (Freiburg: K.
Alber, 1976). This learned discussion of Askêmata
unfortunately draws on B. Rand's edition.
- L. Jaffro, "Les Exercices de Shaftesbury:
un stoïcisme crépusculaire", in Le Retour des
philosophies à l'âge classique, vol. 1, Le Stoïcisme,
ed. P.-F. Moreau (Paris: Albin Michel, 1999), 340-354.
- L. Jaffro, "La question du sens moral et
le lexique stoïcien", Shaftesbury. Philosophie et
politesse, ed. F. Brugère and M. Malherbe (Paris:
Champion, 2000), 61-78.
- Enthusiasm and Religion
- A. O. Aldridge, "Shaftesbury and the Test
of Truth", Publications of the Modern Language
Association, 60 (1945): 129-156.
- A. O. Aldridge, "Shaftesbury and the
Deist Manifesto", Transactions of the American
Philosophical Society, 41 (1951): 297-385. A major
study.
- H. J. Schings, Melancholie und Aufklärung
(Stuttgart: Metzler, 1977).
- A. O. Aldridge, "Shaftesbury's
Rosicrucian Ladies", Anglia, 103 (1985): 297-319. Bold
interpretation of The Adept Ladys.
- I. Rivers, "Shaftesburian Enthusiasm and
the Evangelical Revival", in Revival and Religion since
1700: Essays for John Walsh, ed. J. Garnett and C.
Matthew (London: Hambledon Press, 1993).
- M. Heyd, "Be Sober and Reasonable". The
Critique of Enthusiasm in the Seventeenth and Early
Eighteenth Centuries (Leiden: Brill, 1995). Extensive
treatment.
- R. Glauser, “Shaftesbury : enthousiasme et expérience
religieuse”, Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie, 134
(2002): 217-234.
- Shaftesbury and the French Prophets
- G. Ascoli, "L'affaire des prophètes
français à Londres", Revue du Dix-huitième siècle, 1 et
2 (1916).
- H. Schwartz, Knaves, Fools and Mad Men,
and that Subtile Effluvium (Gainesville: University of
Florida Press, 1978).
- H. Schwartz, The French Prophets. A Study
of a Millenarian Group in Eighteenth-Century England
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980). The
best study of the French Prophets affair, which also
does much to interpret Shaftesbury's reaction.
- Reception and Connections in British Thought
- W. E. Alderman, "Bibliographical Evidence
of the Vogue of Shaftesbury in the Eighteenth-Century",
Transactions of the Wisconsin Adademy of Sciences, Arts,
and Letters, 21 (1926): 57-70.
- B. Frey, Shaftesbury und Henry Fielding.
Shaftesburys Ethik und Humorgedanke in Henry Fieldings
komischen Epos (Berne: Arnaud, 1952).
- I. Kramnick, Bolingbroke and his Circle
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1968).
- I. Primer, "Mandeville and Shaftesbury:
somes facts and problems", in Mandeville Studies: New
Explorations in the Art and Thought of Dr. Bernard
Mandeville, (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1975),
126-141.
- L. E. Klein, "Berkeley, Shaftesbury, and
the Meaning of Politeness", Studies in
Eighteenth-Century Culture, 16, (1986): 57-68.
- C. Chapin C., "British references to
Shaftesbury, 1700-1800. Additions, with commentary, to
A. O. Aldridge's list", Philosophy Research Archives, 13
(1987-1988): 315-329. Aldridge's list is included in his
"Shaftesbury and the Deist Manifesto" (above).
- Reception and Connections abroad
- Ch. Elson, Wieland and Shaftesbury (New
York: New York UP, 1913; repr. New York: AMS Press,
1966).
- B. Croce, Shaftesbury in Italy
(Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes, 1924).
- W. J. B. Pienarr, English Influences in
Dutch Literature, and Justus Van Effen as Intermediary
(Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1929).
- L. Stettner, Das Philosophische System
Shaftesburys und Wielands Agathon (Halle, 1929; repr.,
Tübingen: Nimeyer, 1975).
- N. L. Torrey, Voltaire and the English
Deists (New Haven: Yale UP, 1930).
- E. Casati, "Hérauts et commentateurs de
Shaftesbury en France", Revue de Littérature Comparée,
14 (1934): 615-645.
- E. Cassirer, "Schiller und Shaftesbury",
Publications of the English Goethe Society, n. s., 11
(1935): 37-59.
- L. P. Courtines, Bayle's Relation with
England and the English (New York: Columbia UP, 1938).
- D. B. Schlegel, Shaftesbury and the
French Deists (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1956).
- P. Casini, "Diderot e Shaftesbury",
Giornale Critico della Filosofia Italiana, 38 (1960):
253-273.
- G. B. Walters, The Significance of
Diderot's "Essay sur le mérite et la vertu" (Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1971).
- L. Simonutti, "Shaftesbury e la
Bibliothèque choisie", Giornale Critico della Filosofia
Italiana, 7, 2 (1987): 235-281.
- S. O'Connell, "Lord Shaftesbury in
Naples, 1711-1713", Volume of the Walpole Society, 54
(1988 and 1991): 149-219.
- L. Jaffro, "Vauvenargues et Shaftesbury:
le lieu stoïcien de la prolepse", in Vauvenargues.
Philosophie de la force active, ed. L. Bove (Paris:
Champion, 2000), 133-150.
- J. Dybikowski, "Letters from Solitude :
Pierre Coste’s Correspondence with the Third Earl of
Shaftesbury", in Réseaux de correspondance à l'âge
classique (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle), Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire,
Jens Häseler, Antony McKenna (ed.), Saint-Etienne,
Presses Universitaires de Saint-Etienne, 2006,
p.109-133.
- Shaftesbury and Kant
- D. A. White, "The Metaphysics of
Disinterestedness: Shaftesbury and Kant", Journal of Æsthetics
and Art Criticism, 32 (1973-1974): 239-248.
- J. A. Bernstein, Shaftesbury, Rousseau
and Kant. An Introduction to the Conflict between
Æsthetic and Moral Values in Modern Thought (Rutherford:
Fairlegh Dickinson UP, 1980).
- J.-P. Larthomas, De Shaftesbury à Kant
(Paris: Didier Erudition, 1985). Major study of
Shaftesbury's reception in German thought.
- D. Townsend, "From Shaftesbury to Kant:
the Development of the Concept of Æsthetic Experience”,
Journal of the History of Ideas, 48 (1987): 287-305.
- D. Lories, "Du désintéressement et du
sens commun. Réflexions sur Shaftesbury et Kant", Etudes
Phénoménologiques, 9-10 (1989): 189-217.
- E. E. Kleist, Judging Appearances. A
Phenomenological Study of the Kantian Sensus Communis
(Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000).
- Philological and Editorial Studies
- A. O. Aldridge, "Two Versions of
Shaftesbury's Inquiry Concerning virtue", The Huntington
Library Quarterly, 13 (1949-1950): 207-214.
- S. F. Whitaker, "The First Edition of
Shaftesbury's Moralists", The Library, 7 (1952):
235-241.
- H. Meyer Limae Labor: Untersuchungen zur
Textgenese und Druckgeschichte von Shaftesburys "The
Moralists" (Francfort: Peter Lang, 1978). Close study of
the editorial process of The Moralists.
- R. B. Wolf, "The Publication of
Shaftesbury's Letter Concerning Enthusiasm", Studies in
Bibliography, 32 (1979): 236-241.
- H. Meyer, "Ein Philosoph gestaltet seine
Bücher. Shaftesbury und die Drucklegung des
Characteristicks (1711/14)", Imprimatur, n. s., 11
(1984): 255-267.
- R. B. Wolf, "The First Two Editions of
Shaftesbury's Characteristics: corrigenda and addenda to
Meyer's Limae Labor", Papers of the Bibliographical
Society of America, 78 (1984): 349-359.
- P. Zanardi, "Shaftesbury e Des Maizeaux.
La storia di una traduzione mancata", I castelli di
Yale. Quaderni di filosofia, 3 (1998): 93-98.
- L. Jaffro, "Les manuscrits de
Shaftesbury: typologie et théorie", in Lire, copier,
écrire: les bibliothèques manuscrites et leurs usages au
XVIIIe siècle, ed. E. Décultot (Paris: CNRS éditions,
2003): 161-178.
- L. Jaffro, "Le Socrate de Shaftesbury.
Comment raconter aux Modernes l'histoire de Socrate ?",
Socrate in occidente, ed. E. Lojacono (Firenze: Le
Monnier Università, 2004), 66-90. A study of the
manuscript of the Design of a Socratick History.
- Miscellaneous
- F. Paknadel, "Shaftesbury's Illustrations
of Characteristics", Journal of the Warburg and
Courtauld Institutes, 37 (1974): 290-312. Widely cited
and valuable essay on the engravings of the 2nd and
subsequent editions of Characteristics.
- H. Meyer, "Ex Libris Shaftesburys : die Bibliothek
eines Europäischen Auflklärers”, Wölfenbütteler
Forschungen, 2 (1977): 75-90.
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