Binding: Paperback
Description: Anger is not just ubiquitous it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care sufficiently for justice without anger at injustice. Many believe that it is impossible for individuals to vindicate their own self - respect or to move beyond an injury without anger. To not feel anger in those cases would be considered suspect. Is this how we should think about anger or is anger above all a disease deforming both the personal and the political? In this wide - ranging book Martha C. Nussbaum one of our leading public intellectuals argues that anger is conceptually confused and normatively pernicious. It assumes that the suffering of the wrongdoer restores the thing that was damaged and it betrays an all - too - lively interest in relative status and humiliation. Studying anger in intimate relationships casual daily interactions the workplace the criminal justice system and movements for social transformation Nussbaum shows that anger's core ideas are both infantile and harmful. Is forgiveness the best way of transcending anger? Nussbaum examines different conceptions of this much - sentimentalized notion both in the Jewish and Christian traditions and in secular morality. Some forms of forgiveness are ethically promising she claims but others are subtle allies of retribution: those that exact a performance of contrition and abasement as a condition of waiving angry feelings. In general she argues a spirit of generosity (combined in some cases with a reliance on impartial welfare - oriented legal institutions) is the best way to respond to injury. Applied to the personal and the political realms Nussbaum's profoundly insightful and erudite view of anger and forgiveness puts both in a startling new light.
Title: Anger And Forgiveness Resentment Generosity Justice
Author(s): Nussbaum Martha C. (Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor Of Law And Ethics Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor Of Law And Ethics Law School And The Philosophy Department At The University Of Chicago)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190907266
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 11/1/2018
Category: Social & Political Philosophy