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 honors meaning and its compatibility with liberalism, democracy, and modernity. Contributorsrepresenting philosophy, sociology, political science, history, psychology, leadership studies, and military scienceexamine 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, honors role in international relations and community norms, and how honors egalitarian and elitist aspects intersect with democratic and liberal regimes.

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Honor in the Modern World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives is an extremely important work that is at the forefront of a larger reevaluation of honorpresenting it as a still-relevant and modern concept with global political, social, and moral implications. Featuring chapters by some of the fields 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. -- Craig Smith, William Woods University
After decades of neglect in moral philosophy, the topic of honor is starting to receive scholarly attention againthanks in large part to the authors in this volume. The essays in this excellent collection tackle the thorny question of how honor can fit within the western liberal value system and offer compelling reasons for why we need to take honor seriously in todays world. -- Tamler Sommers, University of Houston

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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.