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Honor in the Modern World

Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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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 "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.
1.Fighting Together: Civil Discourse and Agonistic Honor 2.Liberalism and Honor through the Lens of Darwin 3.Liberal Honor 4.A Neo-Aristotelian Theory of Political Honor 5.Putting One's Best Face Forward: Why Liberalism Needs Honor 6.Communitarianism and Honor 7.Good Citizens: Gratitude and Honor 8.Winston Churchill and Honor: The Complexity of Honor and Statesmanship 9.Life in Death: Democracy and Civic Honor 10.The Female Point of Honor in Post-Revolutionary France 11.A Woman's Honor: Purity Norms and Male Violence 12.Restoring Order: The Ancient Greeks on Taming Honor and Appetite 13.The Honour of the Crown': The State and Its Soldiers 14.Honor in Military Culture: A Standard of Integrity and Framework for Moral Restraint
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