About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780198123767ISBN:0198123760
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 234x156 mm. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) (368) this is the first new edition of shaftesbury's characteristicks as a coherent collection for almost a century. a series of treatises of interconnected themes in moral philosophy, aesthetics, literature, and politics, it was immensely influential on eighteenth-century british taste and manners, literature and thought. a substantial introduction places shaftesbury's works and ideas in the context ... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780198123767ISBN:0198123760
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 368 pages. This book is printed on demand (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) this text is a collection of treatises on interconnected themes in moral philosophy, aesthetics, literature, and politics. it was influential on 18th-century british taste and manners, literature, and thought, and also on the continental enlightenment. frontispiece and 9 original engravings, index part v.1 (Hardback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Baskerville,, Birmingham:
Date Published: 1733.
Description: 8vo. 3 vols. [2], iv. [2], 364; 443; [4], 410, [50]p. First Baskerville Edition. Later 1/2 red morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., exceptionally fine clean crisp copy, (minor offsetting from frontis. ); books plates of Lloyd Russell & Frederick Lazell. Frontis. of Shaftesbury by J. Closterman & Sim. Gribelin, t.p. vignettes by Gribelin. "Shaftesbury is a very remarkable figure in the literary history of his time. The ‘ Characteristics' give unmistakable indications of ... read more
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