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The Soul of Justice: Social Bonds and Racial Hubris. By Cynthia Willett. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. 241p. $46.50 cloth, $17.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2003

Ange-Marie Hancock
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University

Extract

When is freedom possible? In the silence of a shared heartbeat, when desire is not consumed by the wounds of social forces, hubris, or the historical memory of such violations. According to Cynthia Willett, the locus of that desire is in the socially embedded person. She argues that crimes against the individual as a social person constitute political wounds that should be healed via emancipatory love (p. 214).

Type
Book Review
Copyright
© 2002 by the American Political Science Association

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