| Description | 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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Readership: Students and scholars of late 17th- and early 18th-century literature and thought.
| Contents |
(Volume I)
Introduction
Life, Works, and Ideas
Reception and Influence
The Text
CHARACTERSTICKS, &C.
Preface
Note
A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm
Sensus Cummunis: an Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour
Soliloquy: or Advice to an Author
An Inquiry Concerning Virtue, or Merit
Commentary
List of Emendations and Historical Collation
(Volume II)
CHARACTERISTICKS, &C.
The Moralists, a Philosophical Rhapsody
Miscellaneous Reflections on the Preceding Treatises
Commentary
List of Emendations and Historical Collation
Bibliographical Descriptions
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury
Edited by Philip Ayres, Associate Professor of English Literature, Monash University
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