Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury: - BD IV,1: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury: Standard Edition / IV. Commentaries. Band 1 - Commentaries I

Die Kommentarbände gewähren (in englischer Sprache) neben Erläuterungen zum geistesgeschichtlichen Hintergrund Einblicke in die Shaftesbury eigene Intratextualität sowie in die Text- und Wirkungsgeschichte. Außerdem werden die von der Forschung bisher vernachlässigten, bedeutungsreichen emblematischen Kupferstiche, die, vom Autor selbst sorgfältig entworfen, in zahlreichen Ausgaben des 18. Jahrhunderts zu finden waren, ausführlich in ihrem Zusammenhang mit den jeweiligen Texten erläutert. Band IV,1 enthält die Kommentare zu 'A Letter concerning Enthusiasm und Adept Ladys' (Standard Edition, Band I,1), 'Sensus Communis' (I,3), sowie 'Soliloquy' (I,1); Band IV,2 widmet sich 'Inquiry concerning Virtue' (II,2), 'The Moralists' (II,1), 'Miscellaneous Reflections' (I,2) sowie den 'Second Characters' (I,5).

The commentaries (English throughout) offer in-depth introductions and detailed annotations to each of the works presented in the Standard Edition, not only analysing these within their philosophical, literary, cultural, political-historical, and biographical contexts, but also discussing their textual history, Shaftesbury's autotextuality in 'Characteristicks', and the immediate and later impact and influence of his writings. One additional focus: the emblematic engravings conceived and designed, with meticulous attention to detail, by the Earl himself for use in the second edition of his 'Characteristicks' and reproduced in many of the later eighteenth-century texts. These plates - laden with meaning, but often neglected in scholarship - are shown and elucidated, their significance for the treatises to which they respectively belong thus now fully revealed.

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• Authors: Anthony A Cooper, Anthony A of Shaftesbury
• Assisted by: Wolfram Benda (Editor), Christine Jackson-Holzberg (Editor), Patrick Müller (Editor), Friedrich A Uehlein (Editor)
• Publisher: frommann-holzboog Verlag e.K.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783772809491
• ISBN: 978-3-7728-0949-1
• Sets: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury:
• Series: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury: Standard Edition (SE). Sämtliche Werke, Briefe und; Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury: Standard Edition (SE). Sämtliche Werke, Briefe und
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Renaissance, Enlightenment