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The second lesson comes from Lord Shaftesbury who was tutored by the great theorist John Locke. Shaftesbury developed concepts of criticism and performance as a new way of building bridges between great writers and new readers. Shaftesbury models the way every contemporary academic should perform by teaching the arts of criticism for student-readers to use when engaging with the texts of great writers of political theory.
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Uhr, J. (2018). Reading Shaftesbury. In: Performing Political Theory . Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7998-6_3
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