Honor in the Modern World
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Contributions by Anthony Cunningham, Dan Demetriou, Amitai Etzioni, Steven Forde, Shannon E. French, Mark Griffith, Vanessa Hettinger, Laurie M. Johnson, Sharon Krause, Richard Ned Lebow, Andrea Mansker, Ryan Rhodes, Paul Robinson, Steven Skultety, Joe Thomas, Joe Vandello, Ajume H. Wingo Edited by Laurie M. Johnson, Dan Demetriou
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Publication date:
03 August 2016Length of book:
326 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksISBN-13: 9781498502627
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.
Honor in the Modern World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives is an extremely important work that is at the forefront of a larger reevaluation of honor—presenting it as a still-relevant and modern concept with global political, social, and moral implications. Featuring chapters by some of the field’s top scholars across several disciplines, this book advances the relevance of honor from the ancient world to the present day. Simply put, it makes the case that honor still matters from the battlefield to the boardroom to the classroom, and beyond.