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Disgust, Shame, and the Law
Assembling a rich variety of philosophical, psychological and historical references, one of America's most influential philosophers presents a critiqu...
Ethics and Political Philosophy : Lecture and Colloquium in Mรผnster 2000
The philosophical writings of Martha C. Nussbaum, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, are distinguished by their synthesis of different res...
Writing with the rigorous argument and generous insight that characterizes all her work, Martha Nussbaum in these essays articulates a distinctive con...
The Intelligence of Emotions
Martha C. Nussbaum presents a powerful argument for treating emotions not as alien forces but as highly discriminating responses to what is of value a...
The Good Society and the Deformation of Desire
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Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law
Nussbaum argues that disgust has long been among the fundamental motivations of those who are fighting for legal discrimination against lesbian and ga...
Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of ...
The relationship between gender and governance has too often been neglected in both theoretical and empirical work. Until very recently, most influent...
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A Noble But Flawed Ideal
The cosmopolitan tradition begins with Diogenes, who claimed as his identity "citizen of the world." Martha Nussbaum traces the cosmopolitan ideal fro...
Debating the Limits of Patriotism
Sixteen writers and thinkers respond to Nussbaum's piece in short, hard-hitting essays, acknowledging the power of her argument, but often defending p...
Conversations about Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regret
"Features dueling essays by leading figures in philosophy, law, and economics; each essay employs a wealth of fictional and real world examples to add...
a classical defense of reform in liberal education
Essays on Philosophy and Literature
This volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers...
Available for the first time in paperback, this volume contains text with translation of "De Motu Animalium," Aristotle's attempt to lay the groundwor...
Resentment, Generosity, Justice
In this volume based on her 2014 'Locke Lectures', Martha C. Nussbaum provides a bracing new view that strips the notion of forgiveness down to its Ju...
The Literary Imagination and Public Life
Exploring the role of literature in public discourse, a study of the literary imagination states that novels and novel reading induce a humanistic con...
The Human Development Approach
The Capabilities Approach
In this major book, the author, one of the most innovative and influential philosophical voices of our time, proposes a new kind of feminism that is g...
A Study of Human Capabilities
Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future
Conversations about Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regrets
We all age differently, but we can learn from shared experiences and insights. The conversations, or paired essays, in Aging Thoughtfully combine a ph...
Hellenistic Ethics in Its Rhetorical and Literary Context
Artists and Poets Reflect on Marriage Equality
Over the last decade equal rights for same-sex couples has proven to be one of this country's most pressing political and civil rights issues. The Air...
Benjamin Britten and His War Requiem
"The Tenderness of Silent Minds presents Benjamin Britten's musical representations of the body amidst the brutality of war and their ability to trans...
An Aristotelian Approach
Aristotle on Political Distribution