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Anger and Forgiveness - Resentment, Generosity, and Justice (Hardcover)
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We live in a culture of apology and forgiveness. But while there
are a few thinkers who are critical of forgiveness as being too
supine, and extol the virtues of retribution and 'getting even,'
philosopher and intellectual Martha C. Nussbaum criticizes
forgiveness from the other side: that in the realm of personal
relations, forgiveness is at its heart inquisitorial and
disciplinary. In this volume based on her 2014 Locke Lectures,
Nussbaum paints a startling new portrait that strips the notion of
forgiveness down to its Judeo-Christian roots, where it was
structured by the moral relationship between a score-keeping God
and penitent, self-abasing, and erring mortals. The relationship
between a wronged human and another is, she says, based on this
primary God-human relationship. Nussbaum agrees with Nietzsche in
seeing in forgiveness a displaced vindictiveness and a concealed
resentment that are ungenerous and unhelpful in human relations.
She says forgiveness can give aid and comfort to a certain
narcissism of resentment that a loving and generous person should
eschew-in favor of a generosity that gets ahead of forgiveness and
prevents its procedural thoughts from taking place. With a wide
range of literary and classical references as background, Nussbaum
pursues her penetrating and wide-ranging exploration of anger and
forgiveness from the personal realm into the political, as well as
into a so-called middle realm where we interact with people and
groups who are not our close friends or family. A great deal of
resentment toward others is in this middle realm, and she argues
that the Stoics were right-we should try and understand how petty
most slights are, and avoid anger to begin with.
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Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2016 |
Authors: |
Martha C. Nussbaum
(Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics)
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Dimensions: |
242 x 166 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
315 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-933587-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Philosophy >
General
Books >
Philosophy >
General
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LSN: |
0-19-933587-7 |
Barcode: |
9780199335879 |
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