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Anger and Forgiveness - Resentment, Generosity, Justice (Paperback)
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Anger 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? 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. Is 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.
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