Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice

Author/Contributor(s):	Nussbaum, Martha C
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	05/02/2016
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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.