Honor: A Phenomenology

Robert L. Oprisko is a Visiting Assistant Professor of International Studies at Butler University in Indianapolis, IN. He graduated from Purdue University in 2011. His dissertation, The Phenomenology of Honor, has been nominated for the Leo Strauss Award and the APSA Best Dissertation Award for Political Psychology.

• Part I: An Introduction to Honor Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Honor and Value Chapter 3: Honor and Identity Part II: External Honor Chapter 4: Prestige Chapter 5: Shame Chapter 6: Face Chapter 7: Esteem Chapter 8: Affiliation Chapter 9: Glory Part III: Internal Honor Chapter 10: Honorableness Chapter 11: Dignity Part IV: The Politics of Honor Chapter 12: Rebellion and Revolution Chapter 13: Lessons from Honor

"Robert Oprisko’s book is a brilliant exercise in political theory. Remarkably ambitious in its scope, this phenomenological analysis of honor in social reality draws on a wide range of sources from both analytic and continental traditions in philosophy and political theory in a systematic treatment of various dimensions of both internal and external honor. The book succeeds admirably in demonstrating the way the relational processes of claiming, granting, and withdrawing honor are participants in the construction and transformation of social reality, restoring honor as the central concept of political theory."—Sergei Prozorov, University of Helsinki"Oprisko celebrates the ways that honor is constitutive of our lives in ways both public and private; it is both the stuff of politics and the source of subversion and rebellion, the basis for our personal sense of dignity and a way that we judge, and rank, one another. Oprisko offers us a fascinating and superbly rigorous reading of honor; in discussions ranging from the Illiad to engagements with contemporary political theory, theories of intersectionality and ontology and much more, he has accomplished a truly important and worthy work."—James Martel , San Francisco State University