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Book Reviews 439 Hiding From Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law, by Martha C. Nussbaum. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004 . Pp. xv + 413 . H/b £19 .95 . This book, Nussbaum says, is ‘about the psychological foundations of liberal- ism’ (p. 16 ). It ‘constructs a public myth of equal humanity, to substitute for other pernicious myths that have long guided us’ (p. 17 ). She understands by ‘a liberal society, one based on the recognition of the equal dignity of each indi- vidual, and the vulnerabilities inherent in a common humanity’ (p. 18 ). The ‘idea of vulnerability is closely connected to the idea of emotion’ because ‘emotions are responses to … vulnerability … in which we register the dam- ages we have suffered, might suffer, or … failed to suffer.’ We ‘need law pre- cisely because we are vulnerable to harm and damage in many ways’ (p. 6 ). According to Nussbaum, then, the ideas of vulnerability, emotion, and law are intertwined, and one aim of the book is to give an account of their connec- tions. Her account is intended to replace the prevailing pernicious myths about emotions in general and disgust and
Mind – Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 1, 2005
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