Virtue Ethics and Education from Late Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789462984448)

Vendor: Andreas Hellerstedt
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Format: Hardcover
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Virtue Ethics and Education from Late Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century

$170.00

Virtue Ethics and Education from Late Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century

$170.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book argues that premodern societies were characterized by the quest for "virtue." The concept of virtue, complicated and much fought-over, permeated society, encouraging wisdom, courage, and justice, while simultaneously legitimizing social hierarchies based on sex and nationality. By examining pedagogical texts, rituals, performances, and images, this book illuminates the evolution of virtue through time, helping readers understand the guiding principles of historical action.


Author: Andreas Hellerstedt
ISBN-10: 9462984441
ISBN-13: 9789462984448
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/07/2018
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.90d
By Andreas Hellerstedt
By Andreas Hellerstedt
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Andreas Hellerstedt (editor) is an intellectual historian (Stockholm University) specialized on the early modern period. His main research interests lies in political thought in Northern Europe ca 1650-1750. Since 2013, he has been the research coordinator of the inter-disciplinary project Teaching Virtue, based at the Department of History, Stockholm University and funded by Riksbankens jubileumsfond. He is co-editor of the recent volume Shaping Heroic Virtue, the result of a previous project out of which the current project grew.

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