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Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame and the Law Martha C. Nussbaum. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. 432 pp. $49.50 (hb), $29.95 (pb).
Martha C. Nussbaum draws upon her previous lectures and writings to offer a more detailed and integrated repudiation of the current trend of detaching emotion from legal analysis and the utilitarian tradition. Nussbaum is concerned primarily with punishment and deterrence and the criminal law. But since our notions of what is wrong and right in this sense resonate throughout society, Hiding from Humanity implicates the concern over the breakdown of responsibility and norms beyond the criminal law alone. As control of petty crime relates to quality of...