Cover of The decent society

Book 1996

The decent society

9 readers

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Language
English
Published
1996
  • Civil society
  • Humiliation
  • Justice
  • State, The
  • The State
  • Social history

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.