Description
This incisive work examines how disgust and shame shape moral judgment, social norms, and the law, revealing the ways societies attempt to protect themselves from vulnerability, difference, and perceived contamination. It explores the psychological foundations of liberalism and asks whether emotions rooted in exclusion can legitimately justify legal punishment or public condemnation. Drawing on philosophy, psychology, literature, and legal analysis, the book challenges practices that stigmatize marginalized people while considering how a society might preserve human dignity and equal citizenship. With characteristic rigor and moral urgency, it offers a searching critique of the impulse to hide from the shared vulnerabilities that make us human.
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paperback
Princeton University Press
Published Jan 1, 2004
413 pages
ISBN: 0691095264
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First Published
2004
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Hiding from Humanity by Martha Nussbaum.