Pride and Humility: A New Interdisciplinary Analysis - Couverture souple

Tucker, Shawn R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1349955965 ISBN 13 : 9781349955961

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

This interdisciplinary analysis presents an innovative examination of the nature of pride and humility, including all their slippery nuances and points of connection. By combining insights from visual art, literature, philosophy, religious studies, and psychology, this volume adapts a complementary rather than an oppositional approach to examine how pride and humility reinforce and inform one another. This method produces a robust, substantial, and meaningful description of these important concepts. The analysis takes into account key elements of pride and humility, including self-esteem and self-confidence, human interconnectedness, power’s function and limitations, and the role of fear. Shawn R. Tucker explores the many inflections of these terms, inflections that cast them by turns as positive or negative, emboldening or discouraging, and salubrious or vicious depending upon the context and manner in which they are used.   

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Shawn R. Tucker is Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Elon University, USA. He is the author of The Virtues and Vices in the Arts: A Sourcebook. He also received a National Endowment for the Humanities Enduring Questions grant to develop a course on pride, humility, and the good life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1349955965
• ISBN 13: 9781349955961
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
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