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A Dangerous Passion : Leadership and the Question of Honor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Patapan, Haig, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political leadership.
- Honor.
- Personality and politics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Shows the importance of honor for leaders, both as a source of noble ambition to pursue the public good and as dangerous temptation to seek glory through domination.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Part 1: Introduction
- Chapter 1 Leadership and the Question of Honor
- Modern Neglect of the Question of Honor
- Part 2: Leadership-Honor Dynamic
- Chapter 2 Magnanimous Leadership
- Spiritedness and Leadership
- Two Faces of Honor
- Love and Leadership
- Socratic Education of Leaders
- Magnanimous Leadership
- Chapter 3 Gloria and Machiavelli's New Prince
- The Question of Leadership
- Who are the many?
- Question of Honor
- Machiavellian Legacies: Charisma, Elitism
- Chapter 4 Dispersed Leadership of Thomas Hobbes
- Hobbes's Unsung Hero
- Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes
- "Lord Over the Children of Pride"
- Dispersing Leadership
- Heroic Geese
- Dominance of Hobbes's Leadership-Honor Dynamic
- Part 3: Politics of the Leadership-Honor Dynamic
- Chapter 5 Rethinking Transformative and Transactional Leadership
- MacGregor Burns on Leadership and Prestige
- Leadership and Esteem
- Moral Leadership
- Chapter 6 Idealistic Leadership of Lee Kuan Yew
- Lee Kuan Yew and His Founding Ambition
- Lee Kuan Yew and Asian Values
- Idealistic Leadership as Magnanimity
- Chapter 7 Flattery of Advisors
- Hobbes and Flattery
- Flattery and Magnanimity
- Modern Flattery
- On Secretaries
- On Flatterers
- Machiavellian Advice
- Chapter 8 Anti-politics of Fame and Identity
- Fame and Celebrity
- Dodos and Democratic Equality
- Modern Celebrity
- Politics of Identity
- Recovering Autonomy and Dignity
- Recognition
- Authenticity
- Rhetoric and the Politics of Identity
- Between Fame and Identity
- Chapter 9 Patriotism and National Pride
- Classical Patriotism
- The Modern Patriot
- State and Patria
- Nationalism
- Divine Modern State
- Coldest of Cold Monsters
- Contemporary Patriotic Leadership
- Part 4: Conclusion
- Chapter 10 Noble Ambitions, Dangerous Passions
- Notes.
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781438482811
- 1438482817
- OCLC:
- 1244534791
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