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A dangerous passion : leadership and the question of honor / Haig Patapan

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  • A dangerous passion : leadership and the question of honor / Haig Patapan
  • Albany : State University of New York press
  • C 2021
  • 1 volume (XIII-244 pages) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 24 cm
  • 978-1-4384-8279-8
  • 1-4384-8279-5
  • 978-1-4384-8280-4
  • 9781438482798 rel.
  • 9781438482804 br.
  • 303.34
  • Bibliogr. p.199-222. Notes de bas de pages par chapitre en fin d'ouvrages. Index
  • A dangerous Passion argues that leadership and honor are mutually constitutive and that this dynamic relationship fundamentally shapes the character of political pratctice. Haig Patapan shows how our contemporary blindness to this leadership-honor dynamic and neglect of the significance of honor (and shame) in modern politics have caused us to fundamentallly misunderstand the nature of leadership. We have lost sught of how honor shapes the ambitions and aspirations of those who seek political office, and the opportunities and limits it imposes on leaders when engaging with their followers. What has been obscured are the two faces of honor : how it is the dangerous passion that fuels the ambitions of the glory seekers to pursue tyranny and empire, as well as being the source of good leadership that is founded on nobleambition and sacrifice for the common good. Atapan examines classical magnanimity, Machiavellian glory, and Hobbesian-dispersed leadership, views that continue to be debates, and then offers insights from these debates to illuminate a series of contemporary political challenges for leaders, including the politics of fame, identity, and nationalism.
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