The phenomenology of honor
Abstract
The Phenomenology of Honor is an examination of honor as a system of processes that forms the basis for how individuals and groups relate to one another. Rather than suggesting that there is an ultimate insecurity, honor provides for a multitude of anxieties, fears, and desires centered around the values linked to identity as the propulsive forces of agency. Honor is both externally bestowed and internally assumed allowing for the individual reclamation of sovereignty through both dignity and the desire to establish precedence. The interplay between competing value-systems as internalized by individuals and promoted by groups forms the basis for cooperation and conflict and accounts for continuity and change in politics.
Degree
Ph.D.
Advisors
Weinstein, Purdue University.
Subject Area
Social research|Philosophy|Political science
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