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"See Judith Shklar's discussion of humiliation on p. 37 of her Ordinary Vices (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984) and Ellen Scarry's discussion of the use of humiliation by torturers in chap. 1 of The Body in Pain."--Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989) by Richard Rorty, p.89

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Ordinary Vices (1984) is a book by Judith Shklar.

It is a a collection of six essays on the ordinary vices of cruelty, hypocrisy, snobbery, betrayal, and misanthropy.





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