Courage: Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences, Vol. 1

At a moment when terrorist threats are everywhere, the time is ripe for new reflection on what it means to be courageous. This special issue of Social Research took the events of September 11 as its starting point, and quickly expanded to address a host of questions about the nature, forms, and expressions of courage. Papers in the issue look at courage as a civic virtue, intellectual courage, the classical understanding of courage as a virtue, the need for courage in a democracy. Two papers examine the demand for courage in repressive societies, and what happens when those societies change and courage is no longer the order of the day. Others consider the nature of moral, physical, and intellectual courage, and the psychological and physiological bases of courage and fearlessness.Mack, Arien is the author of 'Courage: Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences, Vol. 1', published 2004 under ISBN 9781933481081 and ISBN 1933481080.