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About the Author
Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic is a postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at Emory University and a lecturer in philosophy and minority studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her work focuses on emotions and moral psychology, combining empirical research and philosophical inquiry to reassess contemporary debates on discrimination, bias, and moral injury.
Reviews
This is my favorite kind of book - it packs a punch with purpose. Munch-Jurisic carefully interrogates a single moment in episodes of gut-wrenching brutality and unmasks tremendous variation in the experience and behaviors of disgust, exploding commonsense views of emotion, morality, and human nature that for decades have masqueraded as science. Be prepared to be simultaneously disturbed by the details, intrigued by their implications, and awed by Munch-Jurisic's skill as a philosopher and story-teller. * Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D., University Distinguished Professor of Psychology, author of How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain and Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain *
In this deeply insightful book, Munch-Jurisic addresses a charged and contentious aspect of human psychology with skill, sensitivity, and moral seriousness. She masterfully weaves together insights from an array of disciplines, and the argument she builds for her thesis-that the revulsion perpetrators can experience in reaction to their atrocities is not the glimmer of some muffled but irrepressible instinctual morality, but rather a culturally shaped gut feeling that is too easily redirected towards morally destructive ends-is wonderfully thought-provoking and largely convincing. * Daniel Kelly, Purdue University Department of Philosophy *
The topic of perpetrator disgust-the tendency for perpetrators to recoil in horror from the atrocities that they have committed-has been a grossly under-researched subject, but one that that is crucial for understanding genocide, dehumanization, and moral psychology more generally. As the first extended scholarly treatment of this phenomenon, Perpetrator Disgust is a landmark accomplishment that will be an indispensable resource for scholars for years and decades to come. * David Livingstone Smith, author of Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization *
Book Information
ISBN 9780197610510
Author Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic
Format Hardback
Page Count 216
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 367g
Dimensions(mm) 148mm * 210mm * 19mm