From Humility to Hubris among Scholars and Politicians - Exploring Expressions of Self-Esteem and Achievement (Paperback)

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."

General

Imprint:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Emerald Points
Release date:	May 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Robert A. 'Stebbins
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-78714-758-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > General
LSN:	1-78714-758-4
Barcode:	9781787147584

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