Shannon E. French

Code of the Warrior

Exploring Warrior Values Past and Present

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on philosophy, history, moral psychology, and ethics, this revised and expanded edition of French's The Code of the Warrior examines historical and contemporary warrior cultures and their values, arguing that today's warriors need a code, as their ancestors did, to pre...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781442254923
• ISBN-10: 1442254920
• Artikelnr.: 45195244

Autorenporträt

Shannon E. French

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Acknowledgments
1 Why Warriors Need a Code
2 The Homeric Hero: A Hector Who Wins?
3 The Two Faces of Rome
4 Vikings: Vengeance, Valkyries, and Valhalla
5 "Never to do outrageousity nor Murder.": The Code of the Warrior in the
World of Mallory's Morte d'Arthur
6 Indigenous Americans: Warriors of the Sacred Plains
7 Chinese Warrior Monks: The Martial Artists of Shaolin
8 The Soul of the Samurai: Duty, Devotion, and Death
9 Revelation and the Rules of Engagement: Sultan Saladin and the Warriors
of Islam
10 The Warrior's Code Today: Do We Need New Ethics of War?
Index
About the Author