The decent society
By: Avishai Margalit ; translated by Naomi Goldblum
Edition: 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780674194373
Subjects: Justice; Civil society; Humiliation; The State
Description: How to be decent, how to build a decent society, emerges out of Margalit's analysis of the corrosive functioning of humiliation in its many forms. This is a deeply felt book that springs from Margalit's experience at the borderland of conflicts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-299) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Humiliation --; title: Rights --; title: Honor --; title: Justifying respect --; title: The skeptical solution --; title: Being beastly to humans --; title: The paradox of humiliation --; title: Rejection --; title: Citizenship --; title: Culture --; title: Snobbery --; title: Privacy --; title: Bureaucracy --; title: The welfare state --; title: Unemployment --; title: Punishment ---- Conclusion.