Ebook: Honor in the modern world: interdisciplinary perspectives

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.;Fighting together : civil discourse and agonistic honor / Dan Demetriou -- Liberalism and honor through the lens of Darwin / Steven Forde -- Liberal honor / Sharon R. Krause -- A neo-Aristotelian theory of political honor / Steven C. Skultety -- Putting one's best face forward : why liberalism needs honor / Ryan Rhodes -- Communitarianism and honor / Amitai Etzioni -- Good citizens : gratitude and honor / Anthony Cunningham -- Winston Churchill and honor : the complexity of honor and statesmanship / Mark F. Griffith -- Life in death : democracy and civic honor / Ajume Wingo -- The female point of honor in post-revolutionary France / Andrea Mansker -- A woman's honor : purity norms and male violence / Joseph A. Vandello and Vanessa Hettinger -- Restoring order : the ancient Greeks on taming honor and appetite / Richard Ned Lebow -- The honour of the Crown : the state and its soldiers / Paul Robinson -- Honor in military culture : a standard of integrity and framework for moral restraint / Joe Thomas and Shannon E. French.