What is a Man? - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060392967 ISBN 13: 9780060392963

Publisher: Regan Books, 2000

Synopsis

Collects the most noted works on manhood from three thousand years of literature, including excerpts from Homer, Sir Thomas Malory, Aristotle, Frederick Douglass, Shakespeare, and John Cheever to present an anthology that is a resource on the essential virtues of men. 50,000 first printing.

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About the Author

Waller R. Newell is professor of political science and philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He was educated at the University of Toronto and Yale University. The author of numerous books and articles on Classical, Renaissance, and Modern European political philosophy and literature, he is a contributor to the Weekly Standard and other publications. He has been a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and the National Humanities Center in Research Triangel Park, North Carolina, and a John Adams Fellow at the Institute of United States Studies at the University of London.

Reviews

Some time ago Shakespeare wrote, "What is a man?" The question remains, still somewhat of a mystery. Newell (political science and philosophy, Carleton Univ., Ottawa) offers countless responses in this highly diversified anthology featuring the opinions of the famousDHomer, Plato, Sir Thomas Mallory, Chaucer, Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, Aesop, Cicero, Tolstoy, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Hemingway, John F. Kennedy, Shakespeare, of course, and also Anonymous, to name a few. All possibilities of manliness are explored: bravery, chivalry, eroticism, sexuality, aggression, hostility, violence, morality, love, and being a boy, husband, and father. Newell's pithy commentary adds the necessary touch of irony and, yes, insight into the unending search for manliness. What it means to be a man (in any age), with all of its attendant virtues and vices, is a complex subject, not readily agreed upon, understood, or accepted. Newell, with his new collection, suggests persuasively that the quest should continue. Recommended for all public libraries.DRobert L. Kelly, Fort Wayne Community Schs., IN
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Edition details

• Publisher: Regan Books
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060392967
• ISBN 13: 9780060392963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 790
• Editor: Newell Waller Randy