Humiliation: And Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence
- ISBN-10
- 0801481171
- ISBN-13
- 9780801481178
- Series
- Humiliation
- Category
- Emotions
- Pages
- 270
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Author
- William Ian Miller
Description
'In an illuminating and darkly intelligent study, William Miller...has revealed...humiliation as the closet dominatrix she is, an emotion whose power to discipline us makes the world go round...Miller makes his pages blaze and roar...by throwing another handful of hollow complacencies upon the fire....The five essays making up this book...are about the persistence of the norm of reciprocity in our daily lives, about the ways in which shame and envy and especially humiliation sustain 'cultures of honor' to this day.'-Speculum
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