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Author:	Martha C. Nussbaum
Subcategory:	Social Sciences
Language:	English
Publisher:	Oxford University Press; 1st edition (February 18, 2010)
Pages:	256 pages
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From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law is a 2010 book about LGBT rights in the United States by the philosopher Martha Nussbaum. Nussbaum analyzes the role that disgust plays in law and public debate in the United States.

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Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago Law School. This talk was recorded October 30, 2008 as part of the Law School's Diversity Week, and sponsored by Outlaw. Associated Student Organization(s). Main navigation footer.

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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, she writes, they experience "a deep aversion akin to that inspired by bodily wastes, slimy insects, and spoiled food--and then cite that very reaction to justify a range of legal restrictions, from sodomy laws to bans on same-sex marriage." Leon Kass, former head of President Bush's President's Council on Bioethics, even argues that this repugnance has an inherent "wisdom," steering us away from destructive choices. Nussbaum believes that the politics of disgust must be confronted directly, for it contradicts the basic principle of the equality of all citizens under the law. "It says that the mere fact that you happen to make me want to vomit is reason enough for me to treat you as a social pariah, denying you some of your most basic entitlements as a citizen." In its place she offers a "politics of humanity," based not merely on respect, but something akin to love, an uplifting imaginative engagement with others, an active effort to see the world from their perspectives, as fellow human beings. Combining rigorous analysis of the leading constitutional cases with philosophical reflection about underlying concepts of privacy, respect, discrimination, and liberty, Nussbaum discusses issues ranging from non-discrimination and same-sex marriage to "public sex." Recent landmark decisions suggest that the views of state and federal courts are shifting toward a humanity-centered vision, and Nussbaum's powerful arguments will undoubtedly advance that cause.Incisive, rigorous, and deeply humane, From Disgust to Humanity is a stunning contribution to Oxford's distinguished Inalienable Rights series.

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I highly recommend this book with only one caveat. Rather than repeating what the previous four reviews have already covered well, i will focus on the one nit i have about the book. This book clearly focusses very much on sex with very little mention of love. I raise this because i think the book misses one of the key elements of homophobic heterosexuality, these people believe that they believe that love is more important than sex, and, that LGBT people do not believe that love is more important than sex. The key point is not the truth of the belief, but that homophobic heterosexuals believe it is true. That homophobes frame everything in terms of sexuality as a way to deny the equality of LGBT people is made clear in this book. However, the book continues to focus on sexual behavior, attempting to justify how LGBT people have sex rather than focussing on how homophobes deny the ability of LGBT people to love, and from that commit to relationships in the same manner that they believe that they do. Love is only covered vaguely under the idea that it is one of the things that people should be allowed to do, rather than as a keystone of our development as individuals and as a society. I think that covering this issue in far more detail would have been a much stronger statement than focussing on sex. We all know the joke about the drunk who searches for his missing keys under the lamppost only because there is more light under the lamppost. I appreciate that it is easier to discuss sex than it is to discuss love and i'm sure that is one of the reasons that we tend to argue for sexual freedom rather than the freedom to love, however, my experience is that love is far more foundational than sex both to the individual and society.

I think that everyone can gain from reading this book for the same reasons the preceding reviewers praised the book. My criticism is not meant to deter you from reading this book, but it is to make clear its limitation. By framing everything in terms of sex, rather than love, the author has allowed the homophobic community (sorry, couldn't think of a better word) to frame the discussion in a manner that will only continue the debate and at best produce little more than tolerance, rather than respect as equals, for members of the LGBT community.

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Quite simply after one cuts away all the rationalizations, the largest source of legal animus against LGBT people is "Queers are icky to me." With powerful arguments contained in the book Martha obliterates the idea the disgust is or should ever be considered a valid guide for legislating.

Furthermore, the politics of disgust goes farther than just being a crappy guide for making laws. With persuasive argument, Martha posits that in the past and present the politics of disgust has been used as a tool of persecution and oppression again a variety of groups such as Women, Jews and the Dalit's of India. By projection, a person/group can take all of the grose uncomfortable ideas about their sex life/anatomy/body and project it onto another person/group (It would seem to explain the almost obsessive attention paid to anal sex by certain advocates against gay rights that taken at face value would indicate that heterosexuals never engage in anal sex!).

Martha Nussbaum upholds John Stuarts Mill harm principle, which provides justified legal regulations on sexual behavior such as consent and the age of majority on identifiable harms to non-consenting parties as the only proper basis for legislating against personal liberties in a pluralistic democracy.

Equality under the law. We have a bill of rights to protect it.

If that bill of rights dissapears with the whiff of public discomfort as people feel uncomfortable imagining what people might/might not be getting up to in the bedroom, what is it worth?

Meztisho

This is a much needed book. Matters of taste should not qualify the value of anything of a person therefore their rights nor objects. Long understood to me is that the history of aesthetics teaches this to us. Aesthetics was born in the 18th century as a philosophy of art that said that the beautiful or that of sublimity made art art thus it grouped objects and endowed them with value giving them special treatment. But then aesthetics move to, or grew to understand that many sensations are important the gross and the horrific and raised them as equal in the human psyche and thus ditched taste with no regard for disgust. Here is a argument that show us how human disqualification functions via a thoroughgoing examination of how we acquire and apply disgust to people(which is as I conceive, a matter of taste). Martha C. Nussbaum shows how matters of taste do but should not influence the courts and why this is. I think It could have more writing on disability, or I wish it had. She really only touches on other minorities to support the central discussion this also make the read easier so it is a trade off.. The design is lovely. The price is great for such a good resource. I got a deal on it, but the jacket price is still really good for what you will get and it is a quick-ish read.

Bu

The book is good although it reiterates some of the major themes in Nussbaum's previous work with religion and capabilities without further elaboration. I believe its major insight is certainly the role that disgust plays in homophobia and how it can be thought of as a political emotion. Nonetheless, neither the topic of emotions nor the historical review of some constitutional cases is particularly elaborated; indeed, regarding the last point, this book is not as good as the one recently written by Hirschman: "Victory: the triumphant gay revolution".

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