On Loyalty

On Loyalty
Author: Troy Jollimore
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781136262746

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Loyalty is a highly charged and important issue, often evoking strong feelings and actions. What is loyalty? Is loyalty compatible with impartiality? How do we respond to conflicts of loyalties? In a global era, should we be trying to transcend loyalties to particular political communities? Drawing on a fascinating array of literary and cinematic examples - The Remains of the Day, No Country for Old Men, The English Patient, The Third Man, and more - Troy Jollimore expertly unravels the phenomenon of loyalty from a philosophical standpoint. He reflects on the idea that loyalty shapes our very identities, and considers both the benefits and the dangers of loyalty: on the one hand, how excessive loyalty can move us to perform immoral, even evil actions; one the other, how loyalty can expand our lives and give us a sense of meaning and belonging.

Exit Voice and Loyalty

Exit  Voice  and Loyalty
Author: Albert O. Hirschman
Publsiher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1972-02-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780674254497

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An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms and, in general, to dissatisfaction with organizations: one, “exit,” is for the member to quit the organization or for the customer to switch to the competing product, and the other, “voice,” is for members or customers to agitate and exert influence for change “from within.” The efficiency of the competitive mechanism, with its total reliance on exit, is questioned for certain important situations. As exit often undercuts voice while being unable to counteract decline, loyalty is seen in the function of retarding exit and of permitting voice to play its proper role. The interplay of the three concepts turns out to illuminate a wide range of economic, social, and political phenomena. As the author states in the preface, “having found my own unifying way of looking at issues as diverse as competition and the two-party system, divorce and the American character, black power and the failure of ‘unhappy’ top officials to resign over Vietnam, I decided to let myself go a little.”

Loyalty

Loyalty
Author: George P. Fletcher
Publsiher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1993
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780195098327

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This book is an important contribution to the public debate on morality, politics, and the law, and is unique in its exploration of loyalty and its role in our personal and national identity.

Loyalty in America

Loyalty in America
Author: John H. Schaar
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780520350380

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1957.

Why Loyalty Matters

Why Loyalty Matters
Author: Timothy Keiningham,Lerzan Aksoy,Luke Williams
Publsiher: BenBella Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2010-03-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781935251293

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For decades we've been told that we live in fast-paced, dog-eat-dog world, that loyalty gets you nowhere, and that we must look out for number one! We've been told that to succeed we have to constantly reinvent ourselves, let go of past relationships, and move on to greener pastures. And we've been told that all this is good. But it's not good. Why Loyalty Matters is grounded in the most comprehensive study of loyalty ever conducted, and what it reveals can change your life. The science is very clear – when it comes to business success, satisfaction in our relationships and even overall happiness, loyalty is essential. Renowned loyalty experts Timothy Keiningham and Lerzan Aksoy combine their own groundbreaking research with the leading thinking in philosophy, sociology, psychology, economics and management to provide a comprehensive guide to understanding what loyalty is, what it isn't and how to unlock its power in your personal and professional life.

The Pretenses of Loyalty

The Pretenses of Loyalty
Author: John Perry
Publsiher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2011-07-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780199756544

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John Perry examines the roots of our thinking on religion and politics, placing the early-modern founders of liberalism in conversation with today's theologians and political philosophers.

Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia

Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia
Author: Thomas Welsford
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2012-11-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004231870

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In this work, Thomas Welsford offers a bold new way of analysing the Tuqay-Timurids' accession to power at the turn of the 17th century.

The Frontier of Loyalty

The Frontier of Loyalty
Author: Yossi Shain
Publsiher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2010-02-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780472026128

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Paperback edition of the pathbreaking book on the role of exiles in international relations, with a new foreword (including material on the war in Iraq). "In a world increasingly shaped by transnational organizations and processes, this is a timely and welcome subject, and Yossi Shain provides an informative overview." --Rogers Brubaker, Harvard University, in The American Journal of Sociology "Engrossing." --International Affairs "Mr. Shain is at his best stitching together information that hitherto had not been systematically related to analytical themes. . . . A major contribution to understanding the patterns and complexities of the politics of those at home abroad." --International Migration Review "The Frontier of Loyalty is the first comprehensive and theoretically oriented study of exile politics; the types of exile activity; the relation to both the home and host governments; and the difficulties and ambiguities of exile politics, particularly the struggle for legitimacy as spokesman for the opposition at home and for recognition from the outside." --- Juan J. Linz, Yale University "An ingenious and sensitive analysis of political exiles as 'voice from without,' which contributes to our understanding of the transnational character of contemporary politics." --- Aristide R. Zolberg, New School for Social Research "Drawing upon a wide literature on contemporary political exiles, Yossi Shain presents a sophisticated, learned and sensible survey of their place in political life today. More important, his meditation on the role of exiles proves such essential political categories as legitimacy, national loyalty, and opposition in the modern state. One test of any work of scholarship is whether it enhances our understanding of concepts that we have previously taken for granted. By this measure, Shain's book passes with flying colors." --- Michael R. Marrus, University of Toronto