Portraits of Integrity (eBook, ePUB)

26 Case Studies from History, Literature and Philosophy
Redaktion: Alston, Charlotte; Wiseman, Rachael; Carpenter, Amber

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350040397
• Artikelnr.: 58649667

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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