Kwame Anthony Appiah
British-Ghanaian philosopher and cultural theorist, Professor of Philosophy and Law at NYU and author of The Honor Code and Cosmopolitanism.
Honor by Frank Henderson Stewart
I disagree with a lot of what he says – in particular that he wants to give up on honour because it has such negative connotations: I think it needs reform as a concept – but I think it's a very lovely piece of scholarly analysis.
on fivebooks.com · 21 Nov 2012
In the Name of Honor by Mukhtar Mai
She is one of my heroes and this is a book about how someone who grasps dignity, which is a form of honour based in our humanity, can resist the world of the negative side of honour, where women are punished because they are pawns in a game of honour between men.
on fivebooks.com · 21 Nov 2012
Moral Capital by Christopher Leslie Brown
This is another beautiful piece of scholarship by an eminent historian, but you don't have to be an academic to read it. It's about a really interesting subject that I think would interest anybody.
on fivebooks.com · 21 Nov 2012
The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
It's just so marvellous, the description of these professional-class Russians, far, far away from Moscow in the provinces, and their preoccupation with status and all that, and these two guys in a completely pointless duel.
on fivebooks.com · 21 Nov 2012
The Economy of Esteem by Geoffrey Brennan & Philip Pettit
This is a book by a philosopher and an economist about a topic that was neglected for a very long time in social analysis. So there's lots about it in the 18th century – Adam Smith and people like that – and it's about how esteem, which is their word for the respect that you give to people who have achieved things against a certain standard, can be used to motivate people to do good things.
on fivebooks.com · 21 Nov 2012
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