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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465228203321

Autore

Nussbaum Martha Craven <1947->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-19-933589-3

0-19-933588-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 pages)

Disciplina

179.9

Soggetti

Anger

Forgiveness

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.