Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice

by Martha C. Nussbaum

Book Overview

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?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199335877
• ISBN13: 9780199335879
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"