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This interdisciplinary analysis presents an innovative examination
of the nature of pride and humility, including all their slippery
nuances and points of connection. By combining insights from visual
art, literature, philosophy, religious studies, and psychology,
this volume adapts a complementary rather than an oppositional
approach to examine how pride and humility reinforce and inform one
another. This method produces a robust, substantial, and meaningful
description of these important concepts. The analysis takes into
account key elements of pride and humility, including self-esteem
and self-confidence, human interconnectedness, power's function and
limitations, and the role of fear. Shawn R. Tucker explores the
many inflections of these terms, inflections that cast them by
turns as positive or negative, emboldening or discouraging, and
salubrious or vicious depending upon the context and manner in
which they are used.
The seven deadly sins are pride, envy, anger, sloth, gluttony,
greed, and lust. The seven virtues are prudence, fortitude,
temperance, justice, faith, hope, and love. 'The Virtues and Vices
in the Arts' brings all of them together and for the first time
lays out their history in a collection of the most important
philosophical, religious, literary, and art-historical works.
Starting with the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian antecedents, this
anthology of source documents traces the tradition of virtues and
vices through its cultural apex during the medieval era and then
into their continued development and transformation from the
Renaissance to the present. This anthology includes excerpts of
Plato's 'Republic', the Bible, Dante's 'Purgatorio', and the
writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and C.S. Lewis. Also included are
works of art from medieval manuscripts; paintings by Giotto,
Veronese, and Paul Cadmus; prints by Brueghel; and a photograph by
Oscar Rejlander. What these works show is the vitality and richness
of the virtues and vices in the arts from their origins to the
present.
This interdisciplinary analysis presents an innovative examination
of the nature of pride and humility, including all their slippery
nuances and points of connection. By combining insights from visual
art, literature, philosophy, religious studies, and psychology,
this volume adapts a complementary rather than an oppositional
approach to examine how pride and humility reinforce and inform one
another. This method produces a robust, substantial, and meaningful
description of these important concepts. The analysis takes into
account key elements of pride and humility, including self-esteem
and self-confidence, human interconnectedness, power's function and
limitations, and the role of fear. Shawn R. Tucker explores the
many inflections of these terms, inflections that cast them by
turns as positive or negative, emboldening or discouraging, and
salubrious or vicious depending upon the context and manner in
which they are used.
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