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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anger.

Forgiveness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

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.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-933589-3

0-19-933588-5

OCLC:

953458882