Robert A. Stebbins

From Humility to Hubris among Scholars and Politicians (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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: "e;Conceit is incompatible with understanding."e;

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787430150
• Artikelnr.: 48419980

Autorenporträt

Robert A. Stebbins, FRSC, is Faculty Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary. He has written over 225 articles and chapters and written or edited 41 books, including recent titles The Idea of Leisure: First Principles; Serious Leisure: A Perspective for Our Time; Personal Decisions in the Public Square: Beyond Problem Solving into a Positive Sociology; Leisure and Consumption: Common Ground/Separate Worlds; and Social Entrepreneurship for Dummies. Stebbins was elected Fellow of the Academy of Leisure Sciences in 1996, the Royal Society of Canada in 1999, and the World Leisure Academy in 2010.