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100 1  Walsh, Chris,|d1966- 
245 10 Cowardice :|ba brief history /|cChris Walsh. 
264  1 Princeton :|bPrinceton University Press,|c[2014] 
300    292 pages :|billustrations ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Profiles in cowardice : a shadow history of the home of 
       the brave -- Of arms and men -- The ways of excessive fear
       -- Duty-bound -- The rise of the therapeutic -- So long a 
       file : cowardice away from war. 
520    "Coward. It's a grave insult, likely to provoke anger, 
       shame, even violence. But what exactly is cowardice? When 
       terrorists are called cowards, does it mean the same as 
       when the term is applied to soldiers? And what, if 
       anything, does cowardice have to do with the rest of us? 
       Bringing together sources from court-martial cases to 
       literary and film classics such as Dante's Inferno, The 
       Red Badge of Courage, and The Thin Red Line, Cowardice 
       recounts the great harm that both cowards and the fear of 
       seeming cowardly have done, and traces the idea of 
       cowardice's power to its evolutionary roots. But Chris 
       Walsh also shows that this power has faded, most 
       dramatically on the battlefield. Misconduct that earlier 
       might have been punished as cowardice has more recently 
       often been treated medically, as an adverse reaction to 
       trauma, and Walsh explores a parallel therapeutic shift 
       that reaches beyond war, into the realms of politics, 
       crime, philosophy, religion, and love. Yet, as Walsh 
       indicates, the therapeutic has not altogether triumphed--
       contempt for cowardice endures, and he argues that such 
       contempt can be a good thing. Courage attracts much more 
       of our attention, but rigorously understanding cowardice 
       may be more morally useful, for it requires us to think 
       critically about our duties and our fears, and it helps us
       to act ethically when fear and duty conflict. Richly 
       illustrated and filled with fascinating stories and 
       insights, Cowardice is the first sustained analysis of a 
       neglected but profound and pervasive feature of human 
       experience."--Jacket. 
650  0 Fear|xHistory. 
650  0 Cowardice|xHistory. 
650  0 Courage|xHistory. 
650  0 Emotions|xHistory. 
650  7 PSYCHOLOGY|xGeneral.|2bisacsh 
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650  7 Cowardice.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00881978 
650  7 Emotions.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00908819 
650  7 Fear.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00922034 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
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