Portraits of Integrity

Charlotte Alston is Professor in History in the Department of Humanities at Northumbria University, UK.Amber Carpenter is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Yale-NUS, Singapore.Rachael Wiseman is Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Liverpool, UK.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction1. Plato’s Socrates: The Oddness of the Integrated Soul, Amber D. Carpenter2. Manlius Severinus Boethius: Integrity as Attunement to Reality, Matthew Maguire3. Rama: The Imperfections of the Perfect Man in the Valmiki Ramaya?a, Emily T. Hudson4. Antigone: Staging Integrity through Sorority, Valentina Moro5. Job: ‘And Still He Holdeth Fast His Integrity’, Katharine J. Dell6. Ella Baker: Leading With Integrity in the Service of a Cause, Robin Zheng7. ‘Albert’: Transformational Agency and Integrity in the Workplace, Lisa Herzog 8. Huang Zongxi: Making It Safe Not To Be Servile, Sandra Field 9. Lambert Strether: ‘What Plays You Least False’ In A Life With Others, Danielle Petherbridge10. Confucius’s Village Worthies: Hypocrites As Thieves Of Virtue, Winnie Sung11. G. E. M. Anscombe: The False Hypocrisy Of The Ideal Standard, Rachael Wiseman12. Mohandas Gandhi: ‘My Life Is Its Own Message’, Stefan Rossbach13. Tolstoy and the Tolstoyans: Facing Life as a Whole, Charlotte Alston 14. Simone Weil: Against Being True To Yourself, D. K. Levy15. Guan Yu: ‘Righteousness That Is Not Righteousness’ In The Romance Of The Three Kingdoms, Bryan W. Van Norden16. Gerrard Winstanley: Radicalism and the Struggle for Integrity during the English Revolution, David Loewenstein 17. Amadou Bamba: Integrity and the Struggle for Spiritual Cultivation, Alexus McLeod18. Abai Kunanbayev: Integrity and the Law in 19th Century Kazakh Society, Tenlik Dalayeva19. Amrita Sher-Gil: Identity and Integrity as a Mixed-Race Woman Artist in Colonial India, Nalini Bhushan20. Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann and Georg Waitz: Two Models of Scholarly Integrity, Herman Paul 21. Hannah Arendt: Integrity, Truth and the Political Realm, Alexander Beaumont 22. Anansi the Spider: Individual Trickery and Communal Integrity, Stephen L. Bishop23. The Cookes and the Kayes: Assertions of Virtue amongst the ‘Middling Sort’ In Post-Reformation England, Robert Tittler 24. Titus Pomponius Atticus: Writing the Life of an Uncommonly Honourable Roman, Linda McGuire 25. Henry Sienkiewicz’ Letters From America: Creating a Speaker with Integrity, Anja Burghardt26. Virginia Woolf: ‘Writing Without Hate, Without Bitterness, Without Fear, Without Protest, Without Preaching’. Integrity and the Woman Writer in A Room On One’s Own, Lorraine SimAfterwordIndex

A wide-ranging, thought-provoking collection that examines the various aspects and challenges of living with integrity. These short essays challenge us to move beyond thinking of integrity simply as unbending devotion to a principle or being true to oneself.