Anger and Forgiveness

Nussbaum is a connoisseur of emotions

Autorentext

Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, appointed in the Law School, the Philosophy Department, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Author of OUP titles Love's Knowledge, Sex and Social Justice, Philosophical Interventions; others; as well as Not for Profit (Princeton 2010), Upheavals of Thought (CUP 2003), Creating Capabilities (Harvard 2011), Frontiers of Justice (Harvard 2010), among others.

Klappentext

In this volume based on her 2014 Locke Lectures, Martha C. Nussbaum provides a bracing new view 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.

Inhalt

• I. Introduction: Furies into Eumenides
• II. Anger: Weakness, Payback, Down-ranking
• III. Forgiveness: A Genealogy
• Appendix: Dies Irae
• IV. Intimate Relationships: The Trap of Anger
• V. The Middle Realm: Stoicism Qualified
• VI. The Political Realm: Everyday Justice
• VII. The Political Realm: Revolutionary Justice
• Appendix A: Emotions and Upheavals of Thought
• Appendix B: Anger and Blame
• Appendix C: Anger and its Species