A Dangerous Passion: Leadership and the Question of Honor

by Haig Patapan

A Dangerous Passion argues that leadership and honor are mutually constitutive and that this dynamic relationship fundamentally shapes the character of political practice. 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 fundamentally misunderstand the nature of leadership. We have lost sight of how honor shapes the ambitions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438482809
• ISBN13: 9781438482804
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"