Pride

Klappentext "Pride goeth before destruction, a hoaughty spirit before a mighty fall." As the biblical fall of Satan suggests, pride as a defining symptom of self-preoccupation follows a paradoxical route at which end lies self-destruction. Dyson explores the fate of pride from Christian theology to the social responsibilities of self-regard and regard for the society as a whole. Pride is also vain glory, or the inordinate obsession with one's existence, body and intellect, which becomes the playground for human vanity. Dyson examines how pride, within black communities, becomes a necessary and ironic defense against a culture that at once formally rejected it in their vreligious beliefs but embraced it in their social realtions. As a result, blacks were ensconced, implicated, even embroiled, in the West's schizophrenic views of the deadly sin. Dyson will explore all these moments of pride, attempting to probe the contradictory facets of a vice that in some instances became a celebrated virtue, and a virtue among some cultures that ultimately became a vice. Zusammenfassung Dyson explores the fate of pride from Christain theology to the social responsibilities of self-regard and regard for the society as a whole. Also discusses pride in black communities.

Product details

• Authors: Dyson, Michael E. Dyson, Michael Eric Dyson, Michael Eric (Ira B.Wells Professor Dyson, Dyson Michael Eric
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2006
• EAN: 9780195160925
• ISBN: 978-0-19-516092-5
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 183 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Seven Deadly Sins; New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities; Seven Deadly Sins; New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities; New York Public Library Lectur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Sünde, Christliche Philosophie, Ethnic Studies, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Ethics & moral philosophy, Social discrimination & inequality, Ethics and moral philosophy, Mind, body, spirit: thought and practice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity