Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness
Subtitle: Moral Discourse and Cultural Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century England
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 19, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780521607520
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; History of ideas, intellectual history; c 1700 to c 1800; Political Science; Philosophy; Politics/International Relations; British Isles; History & Surveys - Modern; History & Theory - General; Philosophy / Modern; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science-History & Theory - General; Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, --Earl of; Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper,--Earl of,--1671-1713
First sentence: As a young man, the third earl of Shaftesbury already recognized his antagonism to current trends in philosophy.