Haig Patapan 
A Dangerous Passion [EPUB ebook] 
Leadership and the Question of Honor

A Dangerous Passion argues that leadership and honor are mutually constitutive and that this dynamic relationship fundamentally shapes the character of political practice. Haig Patapan shows how our contemporary blindness to this leadership-honor dynamic and neglect of the significance of honor (and shame) in modern politics have caused us to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of leadership. We have lost sight of how honor shapes the ambitions and aspirations of those who seek political office, and the opportunities and limits it imposes on leaders when engaging with their followers. What has been obscured are the two faces of honor: how it is the dangerous passion that fuels the ambitions of the glory seekers to pursue tyranny and empire, as well as being the source of good leadership that is founded on noble ambition and sacrifice for the common good. Patapan examines classical magnanimity, Machiavellian glory, and Hobbesian-dispersed leadership, views that continue to be debated, and then offers insights from these debates to illuminate a series of contemporary political challenges for leaders, including the politics of fame, identity, and nationalism.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface




Part I: Introduction



1. Leadership and the Question of Honor




Part II: Leadership-Honor Dynamic



2. Magnanimous Leadership



3.
Gloria and Machiavelli’s New Prince



4. Dispersed Leadership of Thomas Hobbes




Part III: Politics of the Leadership-Honor Dynamic



5. Rethinking Transformative and Transactional Leadership



6. Idealistic Leadership of Lee Kuan Yew



7. Flattery of Advisors



8. Anti-politics of Fame and Identity



9. Patriotism and National Pride




Part IV: Conclusion



10. Noble Ambitions, Dangerous Passions



Notes

References

Index

Über den Autor

Haig Patapan is Professor in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University in Australia. His many books include
The Democratic Leader: How Democracy Defines, Empowers, and Limits its Leaders (coauthored with John Kane).