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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.
- Fighting Together: Civil Discourse and Agonistic Honor
- Liberalism and Honor through the Lens of Darwin
- Liberal Honor
- A Neo-Aristotelian Theory of Political Honor
- Putting One’s Best Face Forward: Why Liberalism Needs Honor
- Communitarianism and Honor
- Good Citizens: Gratitude and Honor
- Winston Churchill and Honor: The Complexity of Honor and Statesmanship
- Life in Death: Democracy and Civic Honor
- The Female Point of Honor in Post-Revolutionary France
- A Woman’s Honor: Purity Norms and Male Violence
- Restoring Order: The Ancient Greeks on Taming Honor and Appetite
- The Honour of the Crown’: The State and Its Soldiers
- Honor in Military Culture: A Standard of Integrity and Framework for Moral Restraint
Honor in the Modern World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives is an extremely important work that is at the forefront of a larger reevaluation of honor—presenting it as a still-relevant and modern concept with global political, social, and moral implications. Featuring chapters by some of the field’s 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
This is a superb anthology that questions the value and even the existence of honor in the contemporary world. This timely book insofar as the essays contained therein analyze practices that differ from previous research that focused almost exclusively on a Mediterranean perspective. This is an impressive set of works that casts new light on an ancient concept.
— The European Legacy
Honor in the Modern World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives is an extremely important work that is at the forefront of a larger reevaluation of honor—presenting it as a still-relevant and modern concept with global political, social, and moral implications. Featuring chapters by some of the field’s 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 again—thanks 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 today’s world.— Tamler Sommers, University of Houston