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100 1 $aBowman, James,$d1948-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006003768
245 10 $aHonor :$ba history /$cJames Bowman.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bEncounter Books,$c2006.
300 $a381 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 329-359) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction : the two kinds of honor -- $g1.$t"We are men" : the Islamic honor culture and the West -- $g2.$tRightly to be great : the origins of the Western honor culture -- $g3.$tAristocracy and democracy : honor democratized -- $g4.$tWhat happened to honor? : modern warfare, therapy and feminism -- $g5.$tHonor between the wars : the cult of youth -- $g6.$tWorld War II : honor and the progressive spirit -- $g7.$tHonor in postwar America : Korea and the 1950s -- $g8.$tVietnam : war as social therapy and psychological trauma -- $g9.$tVietnam and the loss of cultural honor -- $g10.$tThe aristocracy of feeling : honor as celebrity -- $g11.$tHonor's revival : why do we need it? : is it possible?
520 1 $a"From the earliest records of human civilization until the dawn of the twentieth century, and in widely separated cultures throughout the world, the story of honor was inseparable from the story of mankind. Today, an acquaintance with the concept of honor is indispensable to understanding the culture of the Islamic world and its sense of grievance against the West, where honor has been disregarded or actively despised for three-quarters of a century." "James Bowman draws from an wealth of sources across many centuries to illuminate honor's curious history in our own culture, and he discovers that Western honor was always different from that found elsewhere. Its idiosyncratic qualities derived partly from the classical tradition but mainly from the Judeo-Christian heritage, whose emphases on individual morality and, more recently, on sincerity and authenticity in private and personal life have acted as continual challenges to the traditional notion of honor as it is still maintained in other parts of the world. These challenges to honor and the accommodations with it that they ultimately produced are a fundamental theme in our own culture's distinctive history; and the eventual collapse of the honor culture in the West is the background against which the War on Terror and the Clash of Civilizations ought to be seen."--BOOK JACKET.
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