Dueling for Equality
Masculine Honor and the Modern Politics of Dignity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6350207 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mika Lavaque-Manty (0000-0003-2210-0881, University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 715-740 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0090591706291727 |
| OpenAlex | W1972389381 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 7 |
This essay argues that aristocratic values and social practices were deployed in the transition to modernity, where equal dignity replaced positional honor as the ground on which an individual's political status rests. The essay focuses on dueling, one of the most important practices for the maintenance of aristocratic honor, at the moments of transition, primarily in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author argues that the practice has resources for an egalitarian refashioning. This is because it is a system for the distribution of respect and because it involves social equals. At the same time, it is necessarily masculine, which limits the degree to which it can realize equality. The essay argues that the egalitarian refashioning emerged in part out of eighteenth-century thinkers' own reinterpretation of the practice. The focal theorist in the essay is Immanuel Kant, whose discussion allows us to weave together theoretical discussions of honor with the social practices of dueling
Aesthetics · Dignity · Epistemology · Honor · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Reinterpretation · Sociology · Transition (genetics · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
Respect as Recognition
The great enrichment
Stanzas and Sticks
An American duel? Honour-bound society, youth morality, and the life cycle of moral anxiety in the late Habsburg Empire
Bargaining for the disappeared? Rewarding perpetrators in transitional justice contexts
Because we were angry
‘Care of the Self’ and Political Resistance in Kant's Notion of Human Dignity
The Honor of Human Rights
The veil of philanthropy
I’d Kill to Belong! Comparing Brahmanical, Samurai, and Gentleman Masculinities in the Early Modern Period
Aristocrats for Peace
The Great Enrichment
The Constant Companion of Virtue”
Dueling, Conflicting Masculinities, and the Victorian Gentleman
Contradictory Fin-de Siècle Reform
Duels in the European Novel
Corrupt and Honorable, Gangster and Nobleman
Para reprimir a este difamador
Attaching shame to hierarchy and hierarchy to some versions of attachment
Walk With Me in White
French Law, Danish Cartoons, and the Anthropology of Free Speech
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,31 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |