LEADER 03864nam 2200649Ia 450 001 996208048803316 005 20211108204220.0 010 $a1-282-12950-3 010 $a9786612129506 010 $a1-4008-2594-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400825943 035 $a(CKB)1000000000773395 035 $a(EBL)445525 035 $a(OCoLC)437140487 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000338577 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11234111 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000338577 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10299040 035 $a(PQKB)10136287 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36171 035 $a(DE-B1597)446434 035 $a(OCoLC)979968369 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400825943 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445525 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284181 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL212950 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445525 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000773395 100 $a20030905d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHiding from humanity$b[electronic resource] $edisgust, shame, and the law /$fMartha C. Nussbaum 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (431 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-09526-4 311 $a0-691-12625-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [389]-400) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Emotions and Law --$tChapter 2. Disgust and Our Animal Bodies --$tChapter 3. Disgust and the Law --$tChapter 4. Inscribing the Face: Shame and Stigma --$tChapter 5. Shaming Citizens? --$tChapter 6. Protecting Citizens from Shame --$tChapter 7. Liberalism without Hiding? --$tNotes --$tList of References --$tGeneral Index --$tIndex of Case Names 330 $aShould laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be required to display bumper stickers or wear T-shirts that announce their crimes? This powerful and elegantly written book, by one of America's most influential philosophers, presents a critique of the role that shame and disgust play in our individual and social lives and, in particular, in the law. Martha Nussbaum argues that we should be wary of these emotions because they are associated in troubling ways with a desire to hide from our humanity, embodying an unrealistic and sometimes pathological wish to be invulnerable. Nussbaum argues that the thought-content of disgust embodies "magical ideas of contamination, and impossible aspirations to purity that are just not in line with human life as we know it." She argues that disgust should never be the basis for criminalizing an act, or play either the aggravating or the mitigating role in criminal law it currently does. She writes that we should be similarly suspicious of what she calls "primitive shame," a shame "at the very fact of human imperfection," and she is harshly critical of the role that such shame plays in certain punishments. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich variety of philosophical, psychological, and historical references--from Aristotle and Freud to Nazi ideas about purity--and on legal examples as diverse as the trials of Oscar Wilde and the Martha Stewart insider trading case, this is a major work of legal and moral philosophy. 606 $aLaw$xPsychological aspects 606 $aLaw$xPhilosophy 615 0$aLaw$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aLaw$xPhilosophy. 676 $a340.19 700 $aNussbaum$b Martha C$g(Martha Craven),$f1947-$0144658 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996208048803316 996 $aHiding from humanity$913641 997 $aUNISA