Cowardice
A Brief History
(Sprache: Englisch)
Coward. It's a grave insult, likely to provoke anger, shame, even violence. But what exactly is cowardice? When terrorists are called cowards, does it mean the same as when the term is applied to soldiers? And what, if anything, does cowardice have to do...
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Coward. It's a grave insult, likely to provoke anger, shame, even violence. But what exactly is cowardice? When terrorists are called cowards, does it mean the same as when the term is applied to soldiers? And what, if anything, does cowardice have to do with the rest of us? Bringing together sources from court-martial cases to literary and film classics such as Dante's Inferno, The Red Badge of Courage, and The Thin Red Line, Cowardice recounts the great harm that both cowards and the fear of seeming cowardly have done, and traces the idea of cowardice's power to its evolutionary roots. But Chris Walsh also shows that this power has faded, most dramatically on the battlefield. Misconduct that earlier might have been punished as cowardice has more recently often been treated medically, as an adverse reaction to trauma, and Walsh explores a parallel therapeutic shift that reaches beyond war, into the realms of politics, crime, philosophy, religion, and love.
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Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Profiles in Cowardice: A Shadow History of the Home of the Brave 23 Chapter 2 Of Arms and Men 45 Chapter 3 The Ways of Excessive Fear 77 Chapter 4 Duty-Bound 100 Chapter 5 The Rise of the Therapeutic 131 Chapter 6 So Long a File: Cowardice Away from War 165 Acknowledgments 195 Notes 199 Bibliography 249 Illustration Credits 277 Index 281
Autoren-Porträt von Chris Walsh
Chris Walsh is associate director of the College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program at Boston University and has also taught at Emerson College, Harvard University, and the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. His work has appeared in Civil War History, Essays in Criticism, Raritan, and the Yale Review.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Chris Walsh
- 2014, 352 Seiten, 38 Abbildungen, Maße: 14,7 x 22,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- ISBN-10: 069113863X
- ISBN-13: 9780691138633
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.09.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
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