Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper): Standard Edition / I. Works: Aesthetics. Band 4: Printed Notes to the ›Characteristicks‹ u.a.

Being the final volume in the critical edition of ›Characteristicks‹; it contains Shaftesbury’s footnotes as found in both the 1711 and the 1714 texts, together with his index to all six treatises. In addition to cross-referencing, the footnotes offer a considerable amount of explanatory or supplementary material; in many cases they enlarge on the train of thought pursued in the main text. The analytic index shows not only the headings and page references one would expect to find: closer inspection also reveals numerous entries which highlight concealed intratextual links and parallels – pointers towards a deeper understanding of the text.