Liberalism with honor
Why do men and women sometimes risk everything to defend their liberties? What motivates principled opposition to the abuse of power? This text explores honour as a motive for risky and difficult forms of political action.
Print Book, English, 2002
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2002
xiii, 270 pages ; 25 cm
9780674007567, 0674007565
47767036
Preface 1. Liberal Inspirations Political Agency and the Need for Inspiration Excavating Honor 2. Honor and the Defense of Liberty in the Old Regime The Place of Honor in the Old Regime Honor's High Ambitions Reverence and Reflexivity The Partiality of Honor Recognition and Resistance 3. Honor and Democracy in America The Conflict between Honor and Democracy Honor and Self-Interest Well Understood "A Little of Their Greatness" 4. The Love of Fame and the Southern Gentleman Honor and the Love of Fame at the Founding Slavery and the Southern Gentleman 5. Honor and Democratic Reform Lincoln's Principled Ambition Frederick Douglass: The Soul of Honor Honor and Self-Sovereignty: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Honor in the Civil Rights Movement 6. Conclusion: Pluralism, Agency, and Varieties of Democratic Honor Notes Bibliography Index