Manliness - Brossura

Mansfield, Harvey C.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0300122543 ISBN 13: 9780300122541

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2007

Riassunto

This book invitesno, demandsa response from its readers. It is impossible not to be drawn in to the provocative (often contentious) discussion that Harvey Mansfield sets before us. This is the first comprehensive study of manliness, a quality both bad and good, mostly male, often intolerant, irrational, and ambitious. Our gender-neutral society does not like it but cannot get rid of it.
Drawing from science, literature, and philosophy, Mansfield examines the layers of manliness, from vulgar aggression, to assertive manliness, to manliness as virtue, and to philosophical manliness. He shows that manliness seeks and welcomes drama, prefers times of war, conflict, and risk, and brings change or restores order at crucial moments. Manly men in their assertiveness raise issues, bring them to the fore, and make them public and politicalas for example, the manliness of the womens movement.
After a wide-ranging tour from stereotypes to Hemingway and Achilles, to Nietzsche, to feminism, and to Plato, the author returns to todays problem of unemployed manliness. Formulating a reasoned defense of a quality hardly obedient to reason, he urges men, and especially women, to understand and accept manliness, and to give it honest and honorable employment.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Harvey C. Mansfield is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government, Harvard University.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0300122543
• ISBN 13: 9780300122541
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 289
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile