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Informationen zum 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1.Fighting Together: Civil Discourse and Agonistic Honor2.Liberalism and Honor through the Lens of Darwin3.Liberal Honor4.A Neo-Aristotelian Theory of Political Honor5.Putting One's Best Face Forward: Why Liberalism Needs Honor6.Communitarianism and Honor7.Good Citizens: Gratitude and Honor8.Winston Churchill and Honor: The Complexity of Honor and Statesmanship9.Life in Death: Democracy and Civic Honor10.The Female Point of Honor in Post-Revolutionary France 11.A Woman's Honor: Purity Norms and Male Violence12.Restoring Order: The Ancient Greeks on Taming Honor and Appetite13.The Honour of the Crown': The State and Its Soldiers14.Honor in Military Culture: A Standard of Integrity and Framework for Moral Restraint
