Free Download Katie Ebner-Landy, "The Character Sketch as Philosophy: Manners, Mores, Types"
English | ISBN: 0674294122 | 2025 | 408 pages | PDF | 5 MB
An insightful exploration of the moral and political power of the character sketch in early modern Europe―and the implications for our own relationship to this genre today.
In the fourth century BCE, the philosopher Theophrastus, a student of Aristotle, composed thirty character sketches depicting ordinary Athenian vices: idle chatter, bad timing, cowardice, shamelessness, and superstition, among others. Centuries later, this enigmatic text―known as the Characters―was feverishly translated and imitated by early modern Europeans convinced of its moral and political importance. Tracing this resurgence of the Theophrastan tradition, Katie Ebner-Landy sheds new light on the role of the character sketch as a philosophical tool.
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