Honor : a history /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Encounter Books,
2007.
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| Edition: | Pbk. ed. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the two kinds of honor
- Part I: cultural honor, East and West
- "We are men": the Islamic honor culture and the West
- Rightly to be great: the origins of the Western honor culture
- Aristocracy and democracy: honor democratized
- Part II: the decline and fall of the Western honor culture, 1914-1975
- What happened to honor? Modern warfare, therapy, and feminism
- Honor between wars: the cult of youth
- World War II: honor and the progressive spirit
- Honor in postwar America: Korea and the 1950s
- Vietnam: war as social therapy and psychological trauma
- Part III: post-honor society
- Vietnam and the loss of cultural honor
- The aristocracy of feeling: honor as celebrity
- Honor's revival: Why do we need it? Is it possible?