Table of Contents
List of figures viii
Notes on contributors ix
Introduction 1
1 Plato's Socrates: The oddness of the integrated soul Amber D. Carpenter 15
2 Boethius: Integrity as attunement to reality Matthew Maguire 27
3 Rama: The imperfections of the perfect man in the Valmiki Ramayana Emily T. Hudson 35
4 Antigone: Staging integrity through sorority Valentina Moro 45
5 Job: 'And still he holdeth fast his integrity' Katharine J. Dell 53
6 Ella Baker: Leading with integrity in the service of a cause Robin Zheng 63
7 'Albert': Transformational agency and integrity in the workplace Lisa Herzog 73
8 Huang Zongxi: Making it safe not to be servile Sandra Leonie Field 83
9 Lambert Strether: 'What plays you least false' in a life with others Danielle Petherbridge 93
10 Confucius' village worthies: Hypocrites as thieves of virtue Winnie Sung 101
11 G. E. M. Anscombe: The false hypocrisy of the ideal standard Rachael Wiseman 111
12 Mohandas Gandhi: 'My life is its own message' Stefan Rossbach 121
13 Tolstoy and the Tolstoyans: Facing life as a whole Charlotte Alston 131
14 Simone Weil: Against being true to yourself D. K. Levy 141
15 Guan Yu: 'Righteousness that is not righteousness' in the Romance of The Three Kingdoms Bryan W. Van Norden 151
16 Gerrard Winstanley: Radicalism and the struggle for integrity during the English Revolution David Loewenstein 163
17 Amadou Bamba: Integrity and the struggle for spiritual cultivation Alexus McLeod 173
18 Abai Kunanbayev: Integrity and the law in nineteenth-century Kazakh society Tenlik Dalayeva 183
19 Amrita Sher-Gil: Identity and integrity as a mixed-race woman artist in colonial India Nalini Bhushan 195
20 Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann and Georg Waitz: Two models of scholarly integrity Herman Paul 207
21 Hannah Arendt: Integrity, truth and the political realm Alexander Beaumont 217
22 Anansi the Spider: Individual trickery and communal integrity Stephen L. Bishop 227
23 The Cookes and the Kayes: Assertions of virtue among the 'middling sort' in post-Reformation England Robert Tittler 235
24 Titus Pomponius Atticus: Writing the life of an uncommonly honourable Roman Linda McGuire 249
25 Henryk Sienkiewicz's Letters from America: Creating a speaker with integrity Anja Burghardt 259
26 Virginia Woolf: 'Writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching': Integrity and the woman writer in A Room of One's Own Lorraine Sim 271
Afterword 281
Index 286