{"product_id":"hiding-from-humanity-disgust-shame-and-the-law-9780691126258","title":"Hiding from Humanity: Disgust  Shame  and the Law","description":"\u003cp\u003eShould laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be required to display bumper stickers or wear T-shirts that announce their crimes? This powerful and elegantly written book  by one of Americas most influential philosophers  presents a critique of the role that shame and disgust play in our individual and social lives and  in particular  in the law.  Martha Nussbaum argues that we should be wary of these emotions because they are associated in troubling ways with a desire to hide from our humanity  embodying an unrealistic and sometimes pathological wish to be invulnerable. Nussbaum argues that the thought-content of disgust embodies \"magical ideas of contamination  and impossible aspirations to purity that are just not in line with human life as we know it.\" She argues that disgust should never be the basis for criminalizing an act  or play either the aggravating or the mitigating role in criminal law it currently does. She writes that we should be similarly suspicious of what she calls \"primitive shame \" a shame \"at the very fact of human imperfection \" and she is harshly critical of the role that such shame plays in certain punishments.  Drawing on an extraordinarily rich variety of philosophical  psychological  and historical references--from Aristotle and Freud to Nazi ideas about purity--and on legal examples as diverse as the trials of Oscar Wilde and the Martha Stewart insider trading case  this is a major work of legal and moral philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665897250869,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691126259","price":43.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691126258.jpg?v=1782413429","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/hiding-from-humanity-disgust-shame-and-the-law-9780691126258","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}