On Personality

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 ...