Honor in the Modern World (eBook)

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Dan Demetriou, Laurie M. Johnson (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
326 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-0262-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This book brings together some of the foremost researchers of honor to debate honor’s meaning and its compatibility with liberalism, democracy, and modernity. Contributors examine honor past to present, from masculine and feminine perspectives, and in North American, European, and African contexts.

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After a century-long hiatus, honor is back. Academics, pundits, and everyday citizens alike are rediscovering the importance of this ancient and powerful human motive. This volume brings together some of the foremost researchers of honor to debate honor's meaning and its compatibility with liberalism, democracy, and modernity. Contributors-representing philosophy, sociology, political science, history, psychology, leadership studies, and military science-examine honor past to present, from masculine and feminine perspectives, and in North American, European, and African contexts. Topics include the role of honor in the modern military, the effects of honor on our notions of the dignity and "e;purity"e; of women, honor as a quality of good statesmen and citizens, honor's role in international relations and community norms, and how honor's egalitarian and elitist aspects intersect with democratic and liberal regimes.

Autor

Laurie M. Johnson is professor of political science at Kansas State University.Dan Demetriou is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Morris.

Inhalt

Fighting Together: Civil Discourse and Agonistic HonorLiberalism and Honor through the Lens of DarwinLiberal HonorA Neo-Aristotelian Theory of Political HonorPutting One’s Best Face Forward: Why Liberalism Needs HonorCommunitarianism and HonorGood Citizens: Gratitude and HonorWinston Churchill and Honor: The Complexity of Honor and StatesmanshipLife in Death: Democracy and Civic HonorThe Female Point of Honor in Post-Revolutionary France A Woman’s Honor: Purity Norms and Male ViolenceRestoring Order: The Ancient Greeks on Taming Honor and AppetiteThe Honour of the Crown’: The State and Its SoldiersHonor in Military Culture: A Standard of Integrity and Framework for Moral Restraint

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.8.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Honor and Obligation in Liberal Society: Problems and Prospects
• Co-Autor: Anthony Cunningham, Richard Ned Lebow, Andrea Mansker, Ryan Rhodes, Paul Robinson, Steven Skultety, Joe Thomas, Joe Vandello, Ajume H. Wingo, Dan Demetriou, Amitai Etzioni, Steven Forde, Shannon E. French, Mark Griffith, Vanessa Hettinger, Laurie M. Johnson, Sharon R. Krause
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Citizenship • Communitarianism • Honor • Leadership • Liberalism • Military • national defense • Statesmanship • war • Women
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-0262-8 / 1498502628
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-0262-7 / 9781498502627