Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Part I. Polite Philosophy: 1. The amalgamation of philosophy and breeding -- 2. Lord Ashley's Inquiry: The philosophy of sociability and its context -- 3. The notebooks: the problem of the self -- 4. The notebooks -- philosophy in the inner life -- 5. Philosophy in society -- 6. Philosophical writing -- Part II. Polite Whiggism: 7. From politics to cultural politics -- 8. The critique of the Church -- 9. The critique of the Court -- 10. The culture of liberty