Honor in the Modern World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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Laurie M. Johnson, Dan Demetriou
Rowman & Littlefield, 3 août 2016 - 326 pages
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 “purity” 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.
 

Table des matières

Introduction
1
Origin Stories
19
Liberalism and Honor
63
Honor from Citizens to Statesmen
141
Women and Honor
197
Honor and National Defense
237
Conclusion
283
Bibliography
291
Index
311
About the Contributors
315
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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.

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