Anger and forgiveness : resentment, generosity, justice / Martha C. Nussbaum.

By: Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947- [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016], c2016Description: xii, 315 pages ; 25 cmISBN: 9780199335879 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0199335877 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0199335893; 9780199335893; 0199335885; 9780199335886Subject(s): Forgiveness | AngerDDC classification: 179/.9 LOC classification: BJ1535.A6 | N87 2016

Contents:

1. Introduction: furies into Eumenides -- 2. Anger: weakness, payback, down-ranking -- 3. Forgiveness: a genealogy -- 4. Intimate relationships: the trap of anger -- 5. The middle realm stoicism qualified -- 6. The political realm everyday justice -- 7. The political realm -- revolutionary justice -- 8. Conclusion: the eyes of the world -- Appendix A: emotions and upheavals of thought -- Appendix B: anger and blame; Appendix C: anger and Its species.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301) and index.

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.

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