COVER -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PREFATORY ADDRESS: Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, Wimborne St Giles -- INTRODUCTION. READING SHAFTESBURY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: Patrick Müller, Idar-Oberstein -- I. ART AND AESTHETTICS -- A REALISED DISPOSITION: SHAFTESBURY ON THE NATURAL AFFECTIONS AND TASTE: Karl Axelsson, Uppsala Universitet -- TRANSITION: "PEDAGOGY OF THE EYE" IN SHAFTESBURY'S SECOND CHARACTERS: Mark-Georg Dehrmann, Leibniz Universität Hannover -- THE AESTHETIC MIND: STOIC INFLUENCES ON SHAFTESBURY'S THEORY OF BEAUTY: Andrea Gatti, Università di Ferrara -- THE SURPRISING PASSION FOR WILD NATURE: THE TRUE INNOVATIONOF SHAFTESBURY'S AESTHETICS: Yu Liu, Niagara County Community College (NY) -- THE THIRD EARL OF SHAFTESBURY: PRACTICAL GARDENER AND HUSBANDMAN: Suzannah Fleming, London -- SHAFTESBURY AND GRIBELIN: ANATOMY OF A COLLABORATION: James Pratt, York University, Toronto -- HERCULES AT THE CROSSROADS: SHAFTESBURY'S CONCEPT OF FREEDOM, NEUROSCIENCE, AND COMPATIBILISM: Isabella Woldt, Universität Hamburg -- II. MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY -- CYRUS' STRATEGY: SHAFTESBURY ON HUMAN FRAILTY AND THE WILL: Laurent Jaffro, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne -- SHAFTESBURY ON POLITENESS, HONESTY, AND VIRTUE: Michael B. Gill, University of Arizona, Tucson -- THE COSMOPOLITANISM OF LORD SHAFTESBURY: Angela Taraborrelli, Sapienza Università, Roma -- III. SHAFTESBURY IN HIS TIME -- LOCKE, SHAFTESBURY, AND BAYLE AND THE PROBLEM OF UNIVERSAL CONSENT: Daniel Carey, National University of Ireland, Galway -- "THE ADVANCEMENT OF ALL ANTIENT AND POLITE LEARNING": EDUCATION AND CRITICISM IN CHARACTERISTICKS: Karen Collis, Exeter College, Oxford -- "THE ABLE DESIGNER,WHO FEIGNS IN BEHALF OF TRUTH": SHAFTESBURY'S PHILOSOPHICAL POETICS: Patrick Müller, Idar-Oberstein.

BETWEEN SUSPICION AND ENCHANTMENT: READING SHAFTESBURY'S PRIVATE WRITINGS: Lori Branch, The University of Iowa, Iowa City -- DISSIDENTS AND RÉFUGIÉS READING SHAFTESBURY: Luisa Simonutti, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milano -- ELEGANCE AND SUBLIMITY: THE INFLUENCE OF SHAFTESBURY ON HUME'S ESSAYS: Paola Zanardi, Università di Ferrara -- READING SHAFTESBURY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: Lawrence E. Klein, University of Cambridge -- CONTRIBUTORS.