Courage : (guts, grit, spine, heart, balls, verve-- ) /
This book looks for courage outside of the extremes of violence, endurance and fear, tracking it across cultural and historical divides to its less spectacular and deeper forms. It follows courage across the age-divide to children and across the species- divide to animals
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Victoria, Australia :
Melbourne University Press,
2007
Victoria, Australia : 2007 |
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| Summary: | This book looks for courage outside of the extremes of violence, endurance and fear, tracking it across cultural and historical divides to its less spectacular and deeper forms. It follows courage across the age-divide to children and across the species- divide to animals "Where does courage exist?" This study looks outside of the contexts of fear, violence, and endurance to examine the nature and expression of courage. To reveal the ideas and practices of bold behavior, the book tracks courage across cultural and historical divides to less spectacular, deeper expressions of power in boldness. Courage happens outside of heroics, in sometimes unexpected parts of public and private life. When courage is stripped of its culturally determined virtue, it is seen as an expression of human--and animal--spirit: explosive and morally ambivalent |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | 244 p. ; 24 cm 244 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-241) Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-242) Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-241) |
| ISBN: | 0522853684 9780522853681 |