On Personality (Thinking in Action)
Language: English
Published by Routledge, London and New York, 2004
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- Softcover
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145 pp., vii. Stated: "First published 2004". Contents divided into 5 Parts: ONE :The Pervasiveness of Personality"; TWO "Good and Bad People: A Question of Character"; THREE "The Fragility of Character"; FOUR "Character, Responsibility and Circumspection"; FIVE "Personality, Narrative and Living a Life"; Notes, pp. 129-138; Index, pp. 139-145. Small Octavo wrappers with dark pink and orange spine for white letters; front cover background image, partly in and partly out of focus, of newspaper ads or "Personals", individuals seeking others; Title lettering in dark pink at lower right corner front cover; Author name lettering in brown over 1/2" white border down right side front cover, reading from top down; 1 1/4" white border across bottom front cover for ' Personality 'of Title in dark pink, dark pink ' On ' of Title superimposed upon lower right corner of background "Personals" newsprint. A very FAINT yellowish stain (1" x 7/16") unobtrusively on lower edge, (NO bleeding on text pages) appears to be a dry stain, not liquid)--describes worse than it is, but there you have it--else unqualifiedly As New: Unusually tight binding (NO cracks and appears virtually unopened); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO rubbing wear; NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names. Clean text. UNREAD.…
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- Title
- On Personality (Thinking in Action)
- Author
- Goldie, Peter
- Publisher
- Routledge, London and New York
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0415305144
- ISBN 13
- 9780415305143
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Series
- Book 31 of 33: Thinking in Action
Warm, sensitive, creative, outgoing, cheeky, creepy. Scan any personal ads page and it's clear that to get a life you need a personality first. It is also a notion with a long and often bizarre history: in early Greece and medieval Europe, it was thought to depend on the balance of bile in the body.
On Personality is a thoughtful and stimulating look under the skin of this widely-used but little understood phenomenon. Peter Goldie points out that we rely on personality to do a lot of work: describe, judge, understand, explain and predict others as well as ourselves. Is it really up to this task? If personality is about 'character', is it a relic of a bygone Victorian age? If personality is so reliable, how can a virtue in one person be a vice in another?
Drawing on a great range of philosophers, novelists and films, from Aristotle, Hume, Kant and Nietzsche to Joseph Conrad, Middlemarch, War and Peace and Bridget Jones' Diary, Peter Goldie also discusses some famous psychology experiments. If personality is a reliable guide to predicting what people will do, he reflects on why people often surprise us and asks whether personality is simply down to chance and circumstance.
On Personality is essential reading for anyone interested in this fascinating but slippery concept. It will also make you think twice before writing your CV.
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