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Full-Text Articles in Law
Disgust And Guns: Conduct, Identity, And Second Amendment Animus, William D. Araiza
Disgust And Guns: Conduct, Identity, And Second Amendment Animus, William D. Araiza
Northwestern University Law Review
In Second Amendment Animus, Professor Jacob Charles examines whether the burgeoning doctrine of unconstitutional animus should play any role in adjudicating Second Amendment claims. This Essay responds to Professor Charles’s important work. While it concludes that he is likely correct to reject animus as a grounding for Second Amendment claims, it points out areas where the analysis is more nuanced than he suggests. After considering Professor Charles’s analysis, the Essay examines the Second Amendment animus issue through the theoretical lens provided by Professor Martha Nussbaum’s work on disgust as a motivating factor for the types of exclusionary and subordinating …
The Progress Of Passion, Kathryn Abrams
The Progress Of Passion, Kathryn Abrams
Kathryn Abrams
Like an abandoned fortress, the dichotomy between reason and the passions casts a long shadow over the domain of legal thought. Beset by forces from legal realism to feminist epistemology, this dichotomy no longer holds sovereign sway. Yet its structure helps to articulate the boundaries of the legal field; efforts to move in and around it infuse present thinking with the echoes of a conceptually distinct past. Early critics of the dichotomy may unwittingly have prolonged its influence through the frontal character of their attacks. By challenging a strong distinction between emotion and reason, critics kept it, paradoxically, before legal …
Maggots And Morals: Physical Disgust Is To Fear As Moral Disgust Is To Anger, Spike W. S. Lee, Phoebe C. Ellsworth
Maggots And Morals: Physical Disgust Is To Fear As Moral Disgust Is To Anger, Spike W. S. Lee, Phoebe C. Ellsworth
Book Chapters
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The Emotion Of Disgust, Demand Augmentation, And Wasteful Consumption, Nathan H. Ostrander
The Emotion Of Disgust, Demand Augmentation, And Wasteful Consumption, Nathan H. Ostrander
Nathan H. Ostrander
Conventional economic theory assumes that producers supply goods and services in a responsive, reactive way to innate, genuine, and unmanipulated consumer demand. Evidence increasingly suggests, however, that demand is constructed based on the elements present in any given situation, and that the situation is subject to corporate influence. One method by which corporations construct demand is by using the emotion of disgust to create an apparent problem in an advertisement. Corporations reference the emotion of disgust not only because it is incredibly powerful, but also because advertisements are able to quickly alleviate the disgusting problem and thereby increase consumer receptivity …
The Emotion Of Disgust, Demand Augmentation, And Wasteful Consumption, Nathan H. Ostrander
The Emotion Of Disgust, Demand Augmentation, And Wasteful Consumption, Nathan H. Ostrander
Nathan H. Ostrander
Conventional economic theory assumes that producers supply goods and services in a responsive, reactive way to innate, genuine, unmanipulated consumer demand. Evidence increasingly suggests, however, that demand is constructed based on the elements present in any given situation, and that the situation is subject to corporate influence. One method by which corporations construct demand is by using the emotion of disgust to create an apparent problem in an advertisement. Corporations reference the emotion of disgust not only because it is incredibly powerful, but also because advertisements are able to quickly alleviate the disgusting problem and thereby increase consumer receptivity to …
The Emotion Of Disgust, Demand Augmentation, And Wasteful Consumption, Nathan H. Ostrander
The Emotion Of Disgust, Demand Augmentation, And Wasteful Consumption, Nathan H. Ostrander
Nathan H. Ostrander
Conventional economic theory assumes that producers supply goods and services in a responsive, reactive way to innate, genuine, unmanipulated consumer demand. Evidence increasingly suggests, however, that demand is constructed based on the elements present in any given situation, and that the situation is subject to corporate influence. One method by which corporations construct demand is by using the emotion of disgust to create an apparent problem in an advertisement. Corporations reference the emotion of disgust not only because it is incredibly powerful, but also because advertisements are able to quickly alleviate the disgusting problem and thereby increase consumer receptivity to …
Disgust And The Problematic Politics Of Similarity, Courtney Megan Cahill
Disgust And The Problematic Politics Of Similarity, Courtney Megan Cahill
Michigan Law Review
Martha Nussbaum's latest book, From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation & Constitutional Law, could not have come at a more opportune time in the history of gay rights in the United States. All signs point to progress toward "humanity," from same-sex couples' successful bids for marriage equality in a handful of states to the public's increasing acceptance of the prospect of gays and lesbians serving openly in the military. Even if recent cognitive science research indicates that same-sex relationships provoke more than a little disgust in some people, landmark marriage-equality victories in a few states suggest that the law is …
Law Without Disgust: A Fetid Freedom, Matthew Jordan Cochran
Law Without Disgust: A Fetid Freedom, Matthew Jordan Cochran
Matthew Jordan Cochran
Martha Nussbaum has attacked disgust as an emotion incompatible with political liberal values; a primitive shrinking from animality that is used to subjugate vulnerable groups. Dr. Leon Kass has described disgust as a profound wisdom that teaches us the boundaries beyond which our given human nature becomes compromised. Kass's view of human dignity recognizes the hierarchical nature of being human, while Nussbaum's rather scatological account reduces mankind to a mere species of animal—an animal which is somehow an oppressor for shunning the accouterments of its own mortality. This article compares these two competing views on the interplay between disgust and …
The Genuine Article: A Subversive Economic Perspective On The Law's Procreationist Vision Of Marriage , Courtney M. Cahill
The Genuine Article: A Subversive Economic Perspective On The Law's Procreationist Vision Of Marriage , Courtney M. Cahill
ExpressO
This Article provides a new perspective on the image of marriage that has emerged from the same-sex marriage debate. However flawed, the procreation rationale has enjoyed overwhelming success in recent same-sex marriage litigation. However absurd, the idea that same-sex marriage is a species of counterfeit has become so commonplace in the rhetoric surrounding same-sex marriage that it nearly escapes our notice. This Article argues that while neither the procreation rationale nor contemporary counterfeiting rhetoric makes much sense when considered in isolation, both make a great deal of sense when considered in concert. To that end, this Article looks at the …
A Psychology Of Emotional Legal Decision Making: Revulsion And Saving Face In Legal Theory And Practice, Peter H. Huang, Christopher J. Anderson
A Psychology Of Emotional Legal Decision Making: Revulsion And Saving Face In Legal Theory And Practice, Peter H. Huang, Christopher J. Anderson
Publications
Professor Martha C. Nussbaum is an accomplished scholar in an impressive variety of fields. Drawing on her diverse academic backgrounds, Nussbaum has written extensively about emotions and their importance for law from the perspective of her primary specialty, philosophy. Her book Hiding from Humanity criticizes the roles that two particular emotions, disgust and shame, play in the law. Its central thesis is that, as legal actors, we should be wary of disgust and shame because indulging in those emotions allows us to hide from our humanity - both our humanity in the general sense and also those specific features of …
Same-Sex Marriage, Slippery Slope Rhetoric, And The Politics Of Disgust: A Critical Perspective On Contemporary Family Discourse And The Incest Taboo, Courtney Megan Cahill
Same-Sex Marriage, Slippery Slope Rhetoric, And The Politics Of Disgust: A Critical Perspective On Contemporary Family Discourse And The Incest Taboo, Courtney Megan Cahill
Scholarly Publications
No abstract provided.
The Grammar Of Incest: Boundary Violation, Disgust, And The Slippery Slope Trope, Courtney M. Cahill
The Grammar Of Incest: Boundary Violation, Disgust, And The Slippery Slope Trope, Courtney M. Cahill
ExpressO
This Article examines the role that the incest taboo has played in shaping a normative vision of the family in the law, and argues that the law must reappraise the extent to which disgust, rather than reasoned argument, sustains laws governing sexual and familial choice. It takes issue with the claim that discussion of the taboo has led to its erosion, and contends that it has remained a powerful symbol of non-normative sexuality that is used as the extreme case against which kinship relations are measured. In order to explain why the taboo has persisted over time as a point …
The Progress Of Passion, Kathryn Abrams
The Progress Of Passion, Kathryn Abrams
Michigan Law Review
Like an abandoned fortress, the dichotomy between reason and the passions casts a long shadow over the domain of legal thought. Beset by forces from legal realism to feminist epistemology, this dichotomy no longer holds sovereign sway. Yet its structure helps to articulate the boundaries of the legal field; efforts to move in and around it infuse present thinking with the echoes of a conceptually distinct past. Early critics of the dichotomy may unwittingly have prolonged its influence through the frontal character of their attacks. By challenging a strong distinction between emotion and reason, critics kept it, paradoxically, before legal …
The Anatomy Of Disgust In Criminal Law, Dan M. Kahan
The Anatomy Of Disgust In Criminal Law, Dan M. Kahan
Michigan Law Review
My goal in this review is to call attention to a defect in the dominant theories of criminal law and to identify a resource for remedying it. The defect is the absence of a sophisticated account of how disgust does and should influence legal decisionmaking. The corrective resource is William Miller's The Anatomy of Disgust. To make my claims more vivid, consider two stories. Both involve men who were moved to kill by disgust toward homosexuality.
Upward Contempt, William I. Miller
Upward Contempt, William I. Miller
Articles
Contempt and shame go hand in hand. Actions that should shame us, styles of self-presentation that should humiliate us if we are socially competent enough to have such a purchase on ourselves, are those actions and styles that generate and justify the contempt of others for us. Or, changing the causal order: one's contempt of us will generate shame or humiliation in us if we concur with the judgment of our contemptibility, that is, if the contempt is justified, or indignation and even vengeful fury if it is unjustified. Contempt is thus a mechanism of ranking people or of contesting …