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Introduction

Honor as the Hidden Value of Modernity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2023

Jamison Kantor
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Ohio State University
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Not just embraced by reactionaries, aristocrats, or committed duelists, the idea of honor had widespread cultural and sociopolitical purchase in the Romantic era. As a master value – or a value so prolific that it is becomes the hidden assumption of a range of different theories and practices – honor, this introduction argues, addresses three major developments in modernity: the growing split between private and public selves, the development of new kinds of civic virtue, and the ascendent place of affect in cultural production. Placing Keats, Coleridge, Equiano, Wollstonecraft, Burke, Kant, and Hegel in conversation with contemporary critics such as Wai Chee Dimock, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Achille Mbembe – all of whose recent work is concerned with honor and mutual recognition – this introduction further reveals Romantic cultures diagnosis of the limits of liberal republican notions of liberty when faced with the social necessity of material forms of dignity.

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Print publication year: 2023

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  • Introduction
  • Jamison Kantor, Ohio State University
  • Book: Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity
  • Online publication: 23 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009127233.001
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  • Introduction
  • Jamison Kantor, Ohio State University
  • Book: Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity
  • Online publication: 23 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009127233.001
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  • Introduction
  • Jamison Kantor, Ohio State University
  • Book: Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity
  • Online publication: 23 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009127233.001
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