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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface to the 2016 Edition -- Acknowledgments -- I The Silent Crisis -- II Education for Profit, Education for Democracy -- III Educating Citizens: The Moral (and Anti-Moral) Emotions -- IV Socratic Pedagogy: The Importance of Argument -- V Citizens of the World -- VI Cultivating Imagination: Literature and the Arts -- VII Democratic Education on the Ropes

Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Her principal appointments are in the Philosophy Department and the Law School. Her books include Frontiers of Justice, Creating Capabilities, Political Emotions, and Anger and Forgiveness.

Intro -- Contents -- 1. A Problem in the History of Liberalism -- I. History -- 2. Equality and Love: Rousseau, Herder, Mozart -- 3. Religions of Humanity I: Auguste Comte, J. S. Mill -- 4. Religions of Humanity II: Rabindranath Tagore -- II. Goals, Resources, Problems -- Introduction to Part II -- 5. The Aspiring Society: Equality, Inclusion, Distribution -- 6. Compassion: Human and Animal -- 7. "Radical Evil": Helplessness, Narcissism, Contamination -- III. Public Emotions -- Introduction to Part III -- 8. Teaching Patriotism: Love and Critical Freedom -- 9. Tragic and Comic Festivals: Shaping Compassion, Transcending Disgust -- 10. Compassion's Enemies: Fear, Envy, Shame -- 11. How Love Matters for Justice -- Appendix. Emotion Theory, Emotions in Music: Upheavals of Thought -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Complete List of Reviews to Date; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Women's Lot; CHAPTER TWO: Sex in the Head; CHAPTER THREE: Undemocratic Vistas; CHAPTER FOUR: Recoiling from Reason; CHAPTER FIVE: The Bondage and Freedom of Eros; CHAPTER SIX: Our Pasts, Ourselves; CHAPTER SEVEN: The Chill of Virtue; CHAPTER EIGHT: Venus in Robes; CHAPTER NINE: Justice for Women!; CHAPTER TEN: Divided We Stand; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Looking Good, Being Good; CHAPTER TWELVE: Feminists and Philosophy; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Unlocal Hero; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Foul Play.

A distinguished professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago, a prolific writer and award-winning thinker, Martha Nussbaum stands as one of our foremost authorities on law, justice, freedom, morality, and emotion. In From Disgust to Humanity, Nussbaum aims her considerable intellectual firepower at the bulwark of opposition to gay equality: the politics of disgust. Nussbaum argues that disgust has long been among the fundamental motivations of those who are fighting for legal discrimination against lesbian and gay citizens. When confronted with same-sex acts and relationships