Courage: The Politics of Life and Limb - Couverture souple

Avramenko, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0268020396 ISBN 13 : 9780268020392

Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2011

Synopsis

Courage: The Politics of Life and Limb is a compelling and highly original study of the paradox of courage. Richard Avramenko contends that courage is not simply one virtue among many; rather, it is the primary means for humans to raise themselves out of their individualistic, isolated, and materialistic existence. As such, courage is an absolute and permanent good for collective human life. Specifically, Avramenko argues that when we risk "life and limb" for one another we reveal a fundamental care that binds our community together. Paradoxically, the same courage that brings humans together also drives us apart because courage is traditionally understood as manly, by definition, exclusionary, inegalitarian, and violent.

Avramenko explores the efforts of political thinkers throughout history--such as Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Tocqueville--to reformulate courage so as to hold fast to all that is good about it while jettisoning that which is problematic. In addition to martial courage, the book looks at political courage, moral courage, and economic courage.

Courage: The Politics of Life and Limb makes a vital contribution to the discipline of political science. Clearly and engagingly written, the book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of political theory, ethics, and gender studies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Richard Avramenko is assistant professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the co-editor, with John von Heyking, of Friendship and Politics: Essays in Political Thought (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0268020396
• ISBN 13: 9780268020392
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible