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British-Ghanaian philosopher and cultural theorist, Professor of Philosophy and Law at NYU and author of The Honor Code and Cosmopolitanism.
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The Duel and Other StoriesBook Anton Chekhov
It's just so marvellous, the description of these professional-class Russians, far, far away from Moscow in the provinces, and their preoccupation with status and all that, and these two guys in a completely pointless duel.
Five Books interview on honour
2012-11-21·fivebooks.com ↗
In the Name of HonorBook Mukhtar Mai
She is one of my heroes and this is a book about how someone who grasps dignity, which is a form of honour based in our humanity, can resist the world of the negative side of honour, where women are punished because they are pawns in a game of honour between men.
Five Books interview on honour
2012-11-21·fivebooks.com ↗
HonorBook Frank Henderson Stewart
I disagree with a lot of what he says – in particular that he wants to give up on honour because it has such negative connotations: I think it needs reform as a concept – but I think it's a very lovely piece of scholarly analysis.
Five Books interview on honour
2012-11-21·fivebooks.com ↗
Moral CapitalBook Christopher Leslie Brown
This is another beautiful piece of scholarship by an eminent historian, but you don't have to be an academic to read it. It's about a really interesting subject that I think would interest anybody.
Five Books interview on honour
2012-11-21·fivebooks.com ↗
The Economy of EsteemBook Geoffrey Brennan & Philip Pettit
This is a book by a philosopher and an economist about a topic that was neglected for a very long time in social analysis. So there's lots about it in the 18th century – Adam Smith and people like that – and it's about how esteem, which is their word for the respect that you give to people who have achieved things against a certain standard, can be used to motivate people to do good things.
Five Books interview on honour
2012-11-21·fivebooks.com ↗
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