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Wir sind gerne für Sie da"Pride goeth before destruction, a hoaughty spirit before a mighty fall." As the biblical fall of Satan suggests, pride as a defining symptom of self-preoccupation follows a paradoxical route at which end lies self-destruction. Dyson explores the fate of pride from Christian theology to the social responsibilities of self-regard and regard for the society as a whole. Pride is also vain glory, or the inordinate obsession with one's existence, body and intellect, which becomes the playground for human vanity. Dyson examines how pride, within black communities, becomes a necessary and ironic defense against a culture that at once formally rejected it in their vreligious beliefs but embraced it in their social realtions. As a result, blacks were ensconced, implicated, even embroiled, in the West's schizophrenic views of the deadly sin. Dyson will explore all these moments of pride, attempting to probe the contradictory facets of a vice that in some instances became a celebrated virtue, and a virtue among some cultures that ultimately became a vice.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780195160925
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-19-516092-5
- Verlag: ACADEMIC
- Erscheinungstermin: 10.03.2010
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2010
- Produktform: Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 395 g
- Seiten: 160
- Format (B x H x T): 157 x 235 x 14 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Themen
- Sozialwissenschaften
- Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit
- Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen
- Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
- Sozialwissenschaften
- Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit
- Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen
- Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
- Sozialwissenschaften
- Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit
- Spezielle Soziologie
- Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten