Pride and Humility: A New Interdisciplinary Analysis - Hardcover

Tucker, Shawn R.

 
9781137599193: Pride and Humility: A New Interdisciplinary Analysis
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1137599197 ISBN 13: 9781137599193
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

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.   

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About the Author

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.  

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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.  

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1137599197
ISBN 13 
9781137599193
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
224

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