Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: Volume II Hardback
by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
Edited by Philip (Associate Professor of English Literature, Associate Professor of English Literature, Ayres
Part of the Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times series
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Shaftesbury's Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times is a collection of treatises on interconnected themes in moral philosophy, aesthetics, literature, and politics.
It was immensely influential on eighteenth-century British taste and manners, literature, and thought, and also on the Continental Enlightenment.
The author was a Whig, a Stoic, and a theist, whose commitment to political liberty and civic virtue shaped all of his other concerns, from the role of the arts in a free state to the nature of the beautiful and the good. This is the first new edition of Shaftesbury's Characteristicks as a coherent collection for almost a century.
A substantial Introduction discusses Shaftesbury's works and ideas in the context of his times, and traces the reception and influence of his writings through the eighteenth century and beyond.
A full and scholarly commentary is provided, as well as a complete textual apparatus.
The very thorough Index is Shaftesbury's own. The text is essentially that of the first edition of 1711, as marked up with changes by Shaftesbury himself in preparation for the posthumous second edition of 1714; and the striking emblematic engravings he commissioned especially for the second edition are incorporated.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:404 pages, 3 original engravings
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:25/03/1999
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- ISBN:9780198123774
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:404 pages, 3 original engravings
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:25/03/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198123774
