Associate Professor of English
DePauw University, Indiana
Research expertise
Eighteenth-century English literature and philosophy, focusing on religious toleration, aesthetics, and the Third Earl of Shaftesbury.
Contributions
People
Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), is unarguably among those authors who contributed most fundamentally to defining the concept of ‘sociability’ for thinkers in both Great Britain and the Continent.