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This volume investigates the impact the first and third Earls of Shaftesbury had on Enlightenment thought. The focus is on both their tangible actions on the political stage of the day and on the more general intellectual repercussions of what these men stood for in word and deed. As a result, «Shaping Enlightenment Politics» offers important re-evaluations of what two towering figures of the age had to contribute to much-contested topics such as slavery, the discourse of civic humanism, or party politics.

This doctoral thesis is intended to promote the introduction of integrated engineering of products and services. The main contribution is a new development methodology for Product-Service Systems (PSS) and especially for Industrial Product-Service Systems (IPS2). PSS are systems integrating products and services as equivalent solution elements in order to maintain innovative business models providing added value for customers. The PSS development methodology includes a specific system model, a generic PSS development process model and PSS design methods to support early development phases, i. e. the PSS planning and requirements engineering.

Interest in Shaftesbury is as lively and productive today as it ever was. Indeed, the past decade has seen a veritable international renaissance in studies of his work. The various theoretical approaches of which modern critics and scholars can avail themselves are reflected in the different new interpretations we now have of Shaftesbury. This collection of essays manifests this diversity, offering a representative miscellany which covers a wide range of Shaftesbury’s own intellectual interests. The focus lies on the re-evaluations of his ethics, aesthetics, politics, religion, and literary criticism, as well as examinations of the reception of his works.

The book explores the relationship between national and European dimensions in the context of EU foreign policy, specifically analyzing its involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It delves into how these levels of governance influence decision-making and the complexities of diplomatic efforts in this critical geopolitical issue.

The relationship between Latitudinarian moral theology and eighteenth-century literature has been much debated among scholars. However, this issue can only be tackled if the exact objectives of the Latitudinarians’ moral theology are clearly delineated. In doing so, Patrick Müller unveils the intricate connection between the didactic bias of Latitudinarianism and the resurgent interest in didactic literary genres in the first half of the eighteenth century. His study sheds new light on the complex and contradictory reception of the Latitudinarians’ controversial theses in the work of three of the major eighteenth-century novelists: Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, and Oliver Goldsmith.