Portraits of Integrity

26 Case Studies from History, Literature and Philosophy

Dr Charlotte Alston, Amber Carpenter, Rachael Wiseman (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-04038-0 (ISBN)

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Portraits of Integrity depicts more than 20 historical, fictional and contemporary figures whose character or life raises questions about what integrity is and how it is perceived.

Integrity might be culturally bound, but this diverse set of portraits demonstrates that it is not the special preserve of any one culture. Portraits of Socrates, Mencius, Rama and Job, alongside the aspirational 16th-century couple John and Dorothy Kaye, civil rights activist Ella Baker and an anonymous banker, highlight the persisting – sometimes conflicting – features of a life lived with integrity. An introduction identifies and discusses the key questions and themes raised by the case studies, encouraging the reader to determine for themselves the weight and significance of the recurring topics integrity brings up - truth, awkwardness, goodness, and charisma.

For anyone looking to learn more about this elusive virtue, Portraits of Integrity is an essential collection. It uncovers the manifold aspects of integrity, illustrates the various possibilities for its expression in a life and asks whether living a life of integrity means living a life of isolation and hardship, or if it is possible to live with integrity without jeopardising all else.

Charlotte Alston is Professor in History in the Department of Humanities at Northumbria University, UK. Amber Carpenter is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Yale-NUS, Singapore. Rachael Wiseman is Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Liverpool, UK.

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1. Plato’s Socrates: The Oddness of the Integrated Soul, Amber D. Carpenter
2. Manlius Severinus Boethius: Integrity as Attunement to Reality, Matthew Maguire
3. Rama: The Imperfections of the Perfect Man in the Valmiki Ramaya?a, Emily T. Hudson
4. Antigone: Staging Integrity through Sorority, Valentina Moro
5. Job: ‘And Still He Holdeth Fast His Integrity’, Katharine J. Dell
6. Ella Baker: Leading With Integrity in the Service of a Cause, Robin Zheng
7. ‘Albert’: Transformational Agency and Integrity in the Workplace, Lisa Herzog
8. Huang Zongxi: Making It Safe Not To Be Servile, Sandra Field
9. Lambert Strether: ‘What Plays You Least False’ In A Life With Others, Danielle Petherbridge
10. Confucius’s Village Worthies: Hypocrites As Thieves Of Virtue, Winnie Sung
11. G. E. M. Anscombe: The False Hypocrisy Of The Ideal Standard, Rachael Wiseman
12. Mohandas Gandhi: ‘My Life Is Its Own Message’, Stefan Rossbach
13. Tolstoy and the Tolstoyans: Facing Life as a Whole, Charlotte Alston
14. Simone Weil: Against Being True To Yourself, D. K. Levy
15. Guan Yu: ‘Righteousness That Is Not Righteousness’ In The Romance Of The Three Kingdoms, Bryan W. Van Norden
16. Gerrard Winstanley: Radicalism and the Struggle for Integrity during the English Revolution, David Loewenstein
17. Amadou Bamba: Integrity and the Struggle for Spiritual Cultivation, Alexus McLeod
18. Abai Kunanbayev: Integrity and the Law in 19th Century Kazakh Society, Tenlik Dalayeva
19. Amrita Sher-Gil: Identity and Integrity as a Mixed-Race Woman Artist in Colonial India, Nalini Bhushan
20. Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann and Georg Waitz: Two Models of Scholarly Integrity, Herman Paul
21. Hannah Arendt: Integrity, Truth and the Political Realm, Alexander Beaumont
22. Anansi the Spider: Individual Trickery and Communal Integrity, Stephen L. Bishop
23. The Cookes and the Kayes: Assertions of Virtue amongst the ‘Middling Sort’ In Post-Reformation England, Robert Tittler
24. Titus Pomponius Atticus: Writing the Life of an Uncommonly Honourable Roman, Linda McGuire
25. Henry Sienkiewicz’ Letters From America: Creating a Speaker with Integrity, Anja Burghardt
26. Virginia Woolf: ‘Writing Without Hate, Without Bitterness, Without Fear, Without Protest, Without Preaching’. Integrity and the Woman Writer in A Room On One’s Own, Lorraine Sim
Afterword
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.04.2020
Zusatzinfo	7 b/w illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	388 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-350-04038-X / 135004038X
ISBN-13	978-1-350-04038-0 / 9781350040380
Zustand	Neuware