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Pride and Humility

A New Interdisciplinary Analysis

Shawn R. Tucker (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

213 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-59919-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Introduction.- 1. Cautionary Tales.- 3. Varieties of Humility.- 4. Being Humbled.- 5. Humiliation, Humility, and Humor.- 6. Achilles and Celie.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.10.2016
Zusatzinfo	3 Illustrations, color; XI, 213 p. 3 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Schlagworte	humility • Power • pride • Self confidence • self esteem
ISBN-10	1-137-59919-7 / 1137599197
ISBN-13	978-1-137-59919-3 / 9781137599193
Zustand	Neuware