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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sharon R Krause |
ISBN: | 0674007565 9780674007567 |
OCLC Number: | 47767036 |
Description: | xiii, 270 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | 1. Liberal Inspirations -- Political Agency and the Need for Inspiration -- Excavating Honor -- 2. Honor and the Defense of Liberty in the Old Regime -- Place of Honor In the Old Regime -- Honor's High Ambitions -- Reverence and Reflexivity -- Partiality of Honor -- Recognition and Resistance -- 3. Honor and Democracy in America -- Conflict between Honor and Democracy -- Honor and Self-Interest Well Understood -- "A Little of Their Greatness" -- 4. Love of Fame and the Southern Gentleman -- Honor and the Love of Fame at the Founding -- Slavery and the Southern Gentleman -- 5. Honor and Democratic Reform -- Lincoln's Principled Ambition -- Frederick Douglass: The Soul of Honor -- Honor and Self-Sovereignty: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony -- Honor in the Civil Rights Movement -- 6. Conclusion: Pluralism, Agency, and Varieties of Democratic Honor. |
Responsibility: | Sharon R. Krause. |
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Sharon Krause has written one of those rare works of academic political theory that demand a wide audience. Raising the question of the status of honor in liberal democratic societies, it treats its subject with intelligence, seriousness, and a graceful style that can only be the envy of her fellow academics. -- Steve Lenzer Weekly Standard 20020805 Read more...
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