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Hiding from humanity : disgust, shame, and the law / Martha C. Nussbaum.
Should 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 sometime.
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- ISBN: 9781400825943
- ISBN: 1400825946
- ISBN: 9780691095264
- ISBN: 0691095264
- ISBN: 1282129503
- ISBN: 9781282129504
- ISBN: 9786612129506
- ISBN: 6612129506
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (413 pages)
- Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2004.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-400) and indexes. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Emotions and law -- Disgust and our animal bodies -- Disgust and the law -- Inscribing the face: shame and stigma -- Shaming citizens? -- Protecting citizens from shame -- Liberalism without hiding? |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Genre: | Electronic book. Electronic books. |
