Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice

469 Pages·2013·2.2 MB·English

by  Martha C. Nussbaum

PO LITI CAL
EMOTIONS

PO LITI CAL
EMOTIONS
Why Love Matters for Justice
Martha C. Nussbaum
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, En gland
2013
Copyright © 2013 by Martha C. Nussbaum
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947–
Political emotions : why love matters for justice / Martha C. Nussbaum.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-674-72465-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Political science—Philosophy. 2. Emotions—Political aspects.
3. Emotions (Philosophy). 4. Political psychology. I. Title.
JA71.N88 2013
320.01'9—dc23
2013010890
In memory of Terence Moore,
1953– 2004

Contents
1. A Problem in the History of Liberalism 1
I. History
2. Equality and Love: Rousseau, Herder, Mozart 27
3. Religions of Humanity I: Auguste Comte, J. S. Mill 54
4. Religions of Humanity II: Rabindranath Tagore 82
II. Goals, Resources, Problems
Introduction to Part II 112
5. The Aspiring Society: Equality, Inclusion, Distribution 115
6. Compassion: Human and Animal 137
7. “Radical Evil”: Helplessness, Narcissism,
Contamination 161
III. Public Emotions
Introduction to Part III 200
8. Teaching Patriotism: Love and Critical Freedom 204
9. Tragic and Comic Festivals: Shaping Compassion,
Transcending Disgust 257
viii Contents
10. Compassion’s Enemies: Fear, Envy, Shame 314
11. How Love Matters for Justice 378
Appendix. Emotion Theory, Emotions in Music:
Upheavals of Thought 399
Notes 405
References 437
Ac know ledg ments 449
Index 453
This day of torment, of craziness, of foolishness—
only love can make it end in happiness and joy.
—W. A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte,
Le Nozze di Figaro (1786)