| Description |
xv, 413 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [389]-400) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Shame and disgust : confusion in practice and theory -- 2. Law without the emotions? -- 3. Two problematic emotions -- ch. 1. Emotions and law -- 1. Appeals to emotion -- 2. Emotion and belief, emotion and value -- 3. Emotions, appraisal, and moral education -- 4. Emotion and the "reasonable man" : manslaughter, self-defense -- 5. Emotions and changing social norms -- 6. Reasonable sympathy : compassion in criminal sentencing -- 7. Emotions and political liberalism -- 8. How to appraise emotions -- ch. 2. Disgust and our animal bodies -- 1. Disgust and law -- 2. Pro-disgust arguments : Devlin, Kass, Miller, Kahan -- 3. The cognitive content of disgust -- 4. Disgust and indignation -- 5. Projective disgust and group subordination -- 6. Disgust, exclusion, civilization -- |
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ch. 3. Disgust and the law -- 1. Disgust as offense, disgust as criterion -- 2. Disgust and the offender : the "homosexual-provocation" defense -- 3. Disgust and the "average man" : obscenity -- 4. Disgust as a reason for illegality : sodomy, necrophilia -- 5. Disgust and nuisance law -- 6. Disgust and the jury : "horrible and inhuman" homicides -- ch. 4. Inscribing the face : shame and stigma -- 1. The blushing face -- 2. Primitive shame, narcissism, and the "golden age" -- 3. The refusal of imperfection : the case of B -- 4. Shame and its relatives : humiliation, embarrassment -- 5. Shame and its relatives : disgust, guilt, depression, rage -- 6. Constructive shame? -- 7. Constructive shame? -- 8. Stigma and brand : shame in social life -- ch. 5. Shaming citizens? -- 1. Shame and the "facilitating environment" -- 2. Shame penalties : dignity and narcissistic rage -- 3. Shame and "moral panics" : gay sex and "animus" -- 4. Moral panics and crime : the gang loitering law -- 5. Mill's conclusion by another route -- ch. 6. Protecting citizens from shame -- 1. Creating a facilitating environment -- 2. Shame and a decent living-standard -- 3. Antidiscrimination, hate crimes -- 4. Shame and personal privacy -- 5. Shame and people with disabilities -- ch. 7. Liberalism without hiding? -- 1. Political liberalism, disgust, and shame -- 2. Mill's defense of liberty reconsidered -- 3. The case against disgust and shame -- 4. Emotions and forms of liberalism -- Notes -- List of references -- General index -- Index of case names. |
| Subject |
Law -- Psychological aspects.
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| ISBN |
0691095264 alkaline paper |
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9780691095264 alkaline paper |
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