Pride and Humility A New Interdisciplinary Analysis
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 ps
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Pride and Humility
Shawn R. Tucker
Pride and Humility A New Interdisciplinary Analysis
Shawn R. Tucker Elon University Elon, North Carolina, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-59919-3 ISBN 978-1-137-59920-9 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59920-9
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thank you to VAGA and Art Resource for permission to use the three images in this book. Thank you as well to the support staff at Palgrave for providing so much assistance in this project. To Elon University, I express my deep gratitude for financial support, a sabbatical to gather my ideas, and for the chance to teach my seminar on pride, humility, and the good life. I cannot imagine a better place to work and teach than Elon University! A special thank you to the National Endowment for the Humanities. Your Enduring Questions grant to develop and teach my course on pride, humility, and the good life provided such a wonderful foundation for this entire project. And finally, thank you to the many, many Elon students who participated in my seminar. Your willingness to engage this challenging material with such vigor was a marvelous inspiration.
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CONTENTS
1 Introduction
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2
Cautionary Tales
23
3
Pride and Humility
59
4
Varieties of Humility
89
5
Being Humbled
119
6
Humiliation, Humility, and Humor
147
7
Conclusion: Achilles and Celie
171
Index
209
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LIST
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Paul Cadmus. 1945: Pride. Egg tempera on gessoed linen over Masonite. 24 1/8 × 11 7/8 in. (61.3 × 30.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1993 (1993.87.2), © Jon F. Anderson, Esta
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