Description: Further DetailsTitle: From Humility to Hubris among Scholars and PoliticiansCondition: NewSubtitle: Exploring Expressions of Self-Esteem and AchievementEAN: 9781787147584ISBN: 9781787147584Publisher: Emerald Publishing LimitedFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/16/2017Description: A main theme running through this book is that we cannot understand the virtues of humility and modesty without an equally good understanding of the vices of hubris and conceit. All four attitudes express self-esteem, which flourishes in the soil of achievement. Achievement is valued in any challenging field, be it art, science, sport, entertainment, business, politics, religion, or administration. And it is for this reason alone that achievers are inclined to discuss their excellence or may be forced to discuss it when others inquire about it or remark on it. By these routes achievement and self-esteem surface frequently in the diverse academic and political exchanges that spawn humility/modesty or hubris/conceit.Achievement in a respectable activity can be a wonderful personal milestone bathed in positive emotions, where in the modern world individualism and individuation are widely valued. It may also be wonderful for other people in the achiever’s family, social network, community, or society when they are favorably affected. But in this book, when refracted through three additional analytic lenses – individualism and individuality, big- vs small-picture thinking, and tolerance and compromise – the expression of achievement-based self-esteem takes on some startling new dimensions.One of them is that, at the hubris/conceit end of the continuum of the expression of self-esteem, discussion risks becoming uncivil, owing to the disagreeable ways that achievement is sometimes conveyed (e.g., boasting, name calling, depreciating others’ related achievements). Moreover, such can turn out to be enormously unproductive. Or as Leo Tolstoy once put it: “Conceit is incompatible with understanding.”Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmAuthor: Robert A. StebbinsGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesBook Series: Emerald PointsRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: From Humility to Hubris among Scholars and Politicians
Title: From Humility to Hubris among Scholars and Politicians
Subtitle: Exploring Expressions of Self-Esteem and Achievement
EAN: 9781787147584
ISBN: 9781787147584
Release Date: 05/16/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Name: From Humility to Hubris among Scholars and Politicians : Exploring Expressions of Self-Esteem and Achievement
Language: English
Publisher: Emerald Publishing The Limited
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: Sociology / General, History & Theory, General, Personality, Counseling / Academic Development, Social Psychology, Personal Growth / Self-Esteem, Sociology / Social Theory
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Self-Help, Education, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Item Length: 7.8 in
Author: Robert A. Stebbins
Series: Emerald Points Ser.
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
