{"product_id":"anger-and-forgiveness-resentment-generosity-justice-paperback","title":"Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartha C. Nussbaum\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnger 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMartha C. Nussbaum\u003c\/strong\u003e is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, appointed in the Law School and the Philosophy Department at the University of Chicago. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eLove's Knowledge, Sex and Social Justice\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePhilosophical Interventions\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAging Thoughtfully \u003c\/em\u003e(with Saul Levmore), all from Oxford University Press, as well as \u003cem\u003eNot for Profit\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUpheavals of Thought\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCreating Capabilities\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFrontiers of Justice\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. This book derives from her 2014 John Locke Lectures in Philosophy at Oxford University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 14.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47454645813426,"sku":"9780190907266","price":24.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/4254bf6186c46ba60f3b20984e5c4321_ec7b7ce2-63a4-4562-9368-1bd26c6b05c5.webp?v=1778856502","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/anger-and-forgiveness-resentment-generosity-justice-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}