A deeply insightful approach to cultivating leaders of character centered on the arts and humanities
What does it mean to lead? Whom do we consider to be leaders? And how might viewing leadership through the many lenses of the humanities expand our understanding of how it is imagined, represented, and enacted?
Drawing on insights from eminent scholars in the classics, philosophy, religion, literature, history, art, music, and theater, The Arts of Leading reveals the power of the arts and humanities to unsettle common assumptions about leadership. Rather than instrumentalizing the arts and humanities or reducing them to mere management resources, this series of thoughtful and refreshing essays engages a litany of diverse and nuanced perspectives to uncover alternative ways of imagining and embodying leadership across different historical, moral, political, and cultural contexts.
By exploring how a wide range of disciplines can illuminate and humanize complex aspects of leadership that are often obscured in a discourse hooked on reductive paradigms and quick fixes, The Arts of Leading invites leaders, scholars, and citizens to expand their practice of leadership in our ever-evolving world.
Foreword by:
Elleke Boehmer
Contributions by:
Joy Connolly,
Edith Hall
Edited by:
Edward Brooks,
Michael Lamb
Imprint: Georgetown University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 21mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9781647124830
ISBN 10: 1647124832
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 02 December 2024
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
ForewordLeading Stories and Stories of Leaders viiElleke Boehmer IntroductionHumanizing Leadership: Reimagining Leadership as a Liberal Art 1Edward Brooks and Michael Lamb PART I. CLASSICS1 Conversant Leadership: Ciceronian Ideas for Our Precarious Age 27Joy Connolly2 Tragedies of Leadership: Sophocles, Aristotle, and Shakespeare on Tyranny 41Edith Hall PART II. PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION3 Leadership Lessons from Plato's Republic 57Noah Lopez4 Mosaic Leadership 68Alan Mittleman5 Just Leadership in Early Islam: The Teachings and Practice of Imam Ali 78Tahera Qutbuddin6 Women's Work and the Question of Leadership 93Marla Frederick PART III. LITERATURE7 Shakespeare, His Books, and Leadership 105John Miles8 Crooked Politics: Shakespeare's Richard III and Leadership in the Twenty-First-Century United States 118Kristin M. S. Bezio PART IV. HISTORY9 Lincoln and Leadership in a Racist Democracy 155Paul Escott10 Leadership from the Ground: Enslaved People and the Civil War 175Thavolia Glymph PART V. VISUAL ARTS11 Leadership in Bronze: Boston's Shaw Memorial and the Battle over Civil War Memory 197David M. Lubin12 Visual Leadership: The Power of Art in the Obama Presidency 216Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw PART VI. PERFORMING ARTS13 ""O Clap Your Hands!"": Leadership Lessons from the Experience of Music 233Pegram Harrison14 Acting to Uncover: Theater and Inclusive Leadership 248Melissa Jones Briggs ConclusionDemos and Deep Democracy: Leadership, the Humanities, and a New Human 266Corey D. B. Walker List of Contributors 277Acknowledgments 285Index 287
Edward Brooks is executive director of the Oxford Character Project and director of the Programme for Global Leadership in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. He is also cofounder of Oxford's SDG Impact Lab and coeditor of Cultivating Virtue in the University (2022) and Literature and Character Education in Universities (2022). Michael Lamb is the F. M. Kirby Foundation Chair of Leadership and Character, executive director of the Program for Leadership and Character, and associate professor of interdisciplinary humanities at Wake Forest University. He is also an associate fellow of the Oxford Character Project and author of A Commonwealth of Hope (2022) and coeditor of Cultivating Virtue in the University (2022) and Everyday Ethics (Georgetown University Press, 2019). Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford. She is a founding figure in the field of colonial and postcolonial literary studies, and internationally known for her research in the anglophone literatures of empire and anti-empire.
