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What is Honor?: A Question of Moral Imperatives

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About the Book

What is honour? Has its meaning changed since ancient times? Is it an outmoded notion? Does it still have the power to direct our behaviour? In this provocative book Alexander Welsh considers the history and meaning of honour and dismisses the idea that we live in a culture that has discarded it. He notes that we have other words, such as respect, self-respect, and personal identity, that show we do indeed care deeply about its meaning. Honour is, he argues, a continuing process of respect that motivates or constrains members of a peer group, and its dictates still function as moral imperatives.Surprisingly little systematic study of the history of honour in Western culture has been attempted. Offering a welcome remedy, Welsh provides a genealogy of approaches to the subject, mining some of the most influential texts of the Western tradition. He rereads with fascinating results the works of Aristotle, Cicero, Shakespeare, Mandeville, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Kant, Adam Smith, and others. With a sharp focus on the intersection of honour and ethics in both literature and philosophy, Welsh invites new and constructive debate on a topic of vital interest.

About the Author :
Alexander Welsh is Emily Sanford Professor of English Literature Emeritus, Yale University. Among his many previous books is Dickens Redressed: The Art of Bleak House and Hard Times, published by Yale University Press.

Review :
"An intelligent, stylish, well-informed book."--A.D. Nuttall, author of "Shakespeare the Thinker" -- A.D. Nuttall "Welsh exhibits his powerful intelligence and insight in these engaging pages."--Fonna Forman-Barzilai, University of California, San Diego "Welsh writes felicitously, and his discussions of Aristotle, Cicero, Kant, Adam Smith, and Rawls are especially rewarding."--George Kateb, Princeton University "Fascinating, erudite, and beautifully written, Alexander Welsh's new book draws on Aristotle and Adam Smith, Shakespeare and Defoe, in its sweeping but subtle exploration of the meaning of honor."--Amy Chua, author of "Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--and Why They Fall" --Amy Chua "Intelligent, well-informed, and thought-provoking, this book maps and renders intelligible a formidably difficult terrain: the intersection of honor with ethics in both literature and philosophy. This is an important book."--A.D. Nuttall, author of "Shakespeare the Thinker" --A.D. Nuttall


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780300125641
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 030012564X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Question of Moral Imperatives


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