Garber Marjorie
Garber Marjorie - Character The History Of A Cultural Obsession - Paperback
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Description: A spirited engaging investigation into the concept of character an enduring human obsession in literature psychology politics and everyday life. What is character ? Since at least Aristotle's time philosophers theologians moralists artists and scientists have pondered the enigma of human character. In its oldest usage character derives from a word for engraving or stamping yet over time it has come to mean a moral idea a type a literary persona and a physical or physiological manifestation observable in works of art and scientific experiments. It is an essential term in drama and the focus of self - help books. In Character: The History of a Cultural Obsession Marjorie Garber points out that character seems more relevant than ever today omnipresent in discussions of politics ethics gender morality and the psyche. References to character flaws character issues and character assassination and allegations of bad and good character are inescapable in the media and in contemporary political debates. What connection does character in this moral or ethical sense have with the concept of a character in a novel or a play? Do our notions about fictional characters catalyze our ideas about moral character? Can character be formed or taught in schools in scouting in the home? From Plutarch to John Stuart Mill from Shakespeare to Darwin from Theophrastus to Freud from nineteenth - century phrenology to twenty - first - century brain scans the search for the sources and components of human character still preoccupies us. Today with the meaning and the value of this term in question no issue is more important and no topic more vital surprising and fascinating. With her distinctive verve humor and vast erudition Marjorie Garber explores the stakes of these conflations confusions and heritages from ancient Greece to the present day.
Title: Character The History Of A Cultural Obsession
Author(s): Garber Marjorie
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250798527
Pages: 496 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/13/2021
Category: Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Description: A spirited engaging investigation into the concept of character an enduring human obsession in literature psychology politics and everyday life. What is character ? Since at least Aristotle's time philosophers theologians moralists artists and scientists have pondered the enigma of human character. In its oldest usage character derives from a word for engraving or stamping yet over time it has come to mean a moral idea a type a literary persona and a physical or physiological manifestation observable in works of art and scientific experiments. It is an essential term in drama and the focus of self - help books. In Character: The History of a Cultural Obsession Marjorie Garber points out that character seems more relevant than ever today omnipresent in discussions of politics ethics gender morality and the psyche. References to character flaws character issues and character assassination and allegations of bad and good character are inescapable in the media and in contemporary political debates. What connection does character in this moral or ethical sense have with the concept of a character in a novel or a play? Do our notions about fictional characters catalyze our ideas about moral character? Can character be formed or taught in schools in scouting in the home? From Plutarch to John Stuart Mill from Shakespeare to Darwin from Theophrastus to Freud from nineteenth - century phrenology to twenty - first - century brain scans the search for the sources and components of human character still preoccupies us. Today with the meaning and the value of this term in question no issue is more important and no topic more vital surprising and fascinating. With her distinctive verve humor and vast erudition Marjorie Garber explores the stakes of these conflations confusions and heritages from ancient Greece to the present day.
Title: Character The History Of A Cultural Obsession
Author(s): Garber Marjorie
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250798527
Pages: 496 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/13/2021
Category: Ethics & Moral Philosophy
