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MarthaC. Nussbaum: Human Capabilities, Female Human BeingsCommentary by Susan WolfIn 'Human Capabilities, Female Human Beings', MarthaNussbaum takes up a position she has been developing in other works, filling out aspects of it and bringing...
...in Women, Culture and Development, ed. MarthaNussbaum and Jonathan Glover (Oxford: Clarendon Press,1995), 433–43.24. See studies cited in MarthaC. Nussbaum, [Women's Bodies: Violence, Security...
...organized by MarthaNussbaum) at the Universityof...Lawrence Lessig, MarthaNussbaum, Charlene Posner...3On which, see MarthaC. Nussbaum, Upheavals of...question. Seealso MarthaC. Nussbaum, “Animal...
...ambivalence about the humanities, see Nussbaum, “Nehru,Religion, and the Humanities,” in Wendy Doniger and MarthaNussbaum,India: Implementing Pluralism and Democracy (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010). 9. U...
...engagement.The impetus for this project came, in fact, from just such a case of respectfulconfrontation. In February 1994, MarthaNussbaum was at the University ofVirginia delivering a lecture on some of the texts concerning homosexuality fromancient Greek tradition...
...s conclusions about ties; see his Ethics (London: Oxford University Press, 1949), 22–25. I thank MarthaNussbaum for reminding me of the need tomention ties. 2 The idea was first given this name by G. E. M. Anscombe, in [Modern...
...interpret Aristotle in Aristotelian terms.I am grateful to Rüdiger Bitmer, Myles Burnyeat, Aryeh Kosman, and MarthaNussbaum--whodisagrees with most of my account--for their generous, detailed comments and discussions.
...ambivalence about the humanities, see Nussbaum, “Nehru,Religion, and the Humanities,” in Wendy Doniger and MarthaNussbaum,India: Implementing Pluralism and Democracy (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010).9. U...
to me as [Professor MarthaNussbaum,] which seemed to indicatesome personal acquaintance. So I opened it. The letter inside,signed by a coalition of Christian...
...0028Boulder: Westview Press, 1993).27.See MarthaC. Nussbaum, Skepticism about Practical Reason in Literature andthe...discussion of Stoic ideasin Kant's political thought, see MarthaC. Nussbaum, Kant and Stoic Cosmopolitanism, Journal of Political...
......organized to honor the work of Professor MarthaNussbaum. In her scholarship, Professor Nussbaum...After laying out this case, I discuss MarthaNussbaum's capabilities approach to fundamental...doctrines?" (1) Similarly, for MarthaNussbaum liberalism "must respect and promote......
......participate in this program recognizing the work of Professor MarthaNussbaum. A few years ago, after being fortunate enough to have...contestable. From an anti-essentialist perspective, MarthaNussbaum's liberal humanism is intrinsically suspect. Nussbaum......
...This symposium on the work of MarthaNussbaum as part of the inauguration of the program on Gender and...of gender and sexuality in contemporary U.S. policy. MarthaNussbaum's extensive body of scholarship includes a focus on a......
......pursue a slightly different route. Building upon the work of MarthaNussbaum, my eventual intent in this paper is to articulate what...the atomic bomb, illustrates this type of forgiveness. MarthaNussbaum, in several works--but most extensively in her book......
...In her book Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions, MarthaNussbaum presents a well argued philosophical theory of emotions. (1) The book offers extensive and noteworthy discussions with various......
...Among the many issues that feminists have debated, three stand out for their urgency and significance: the relationship of theory to practice, universalism to particularism, and the transnational to the local and national. Feminism as theory continues to have a complicated and vexed relationship to...
......JUSTICE: DISABILITIES, NATIONALITY, SPECIES MEMBERSHIP. By MarthaC. Nussbaum.[dagger] Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. 487. $35.00. MarthaNussbaum's Frontiers of Justice1 is a major critical assessment of......
......Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future MarthaC. Nussbaum (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, Harvard University...respects the measure of successful democracy In her new book MarthaNussbaum shares this impulse to reverse American perspectives......
......self that seeks fulfillment in the world about us. 2. MarthaC. Nussbaum, The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic...Cambridge University Press, 1986), the prolific scholar MarthaNussbaum has written broadly across the fields of classics, philosophy......
......Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership BY MARTHAC. NUSSBAUM CAMBRIDGE: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2006. PP. 512...particular, I consider two recent, powerful attempts--by MarthaNussbaum (4) and Kwame Anthony Appiah (5)--to make cosmopolitanism......
......sparked deadly protests across the Arab world and a spate of violent incidents targeted minority groups in the United States, MarthaNussbaum's new book offered a thoughtful, timely corrective to the divisive dangers of religious intolerance, particularly Islamophobia......
......Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age By MarthaC. Nussbaum Belknap Press, 304 pp., $26.95 MarthaNussbaum continues her critical reflection...terrorist, I think I would dress like MarthaNussbaum in the winter: floor-length Eddie......
...UPHEAVALS OF THOUGHT: THE INTELLIGENCE OF EMOTIONS. By MARTHAC. NUSSBAUM. Cambridge University Press. 751 pp. $39.50. MARTHAC. NUSSBAUM is a universalist feminist, which makes her something of an anomaly in the academy today. As she......
...THE SOURCE: "A Right to Marry?" by MarthaC. Nussbaum, in California Law Review, June 2010. WHAT ROLE...According to University of Chicago law professor MarthaC. Nussbaum, marriage is an institution with three distinct......
......Axial Age by Robert N. Bellah 2. The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age by MarthaC. Nussbaum 3. Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam by Fred M. Donner 4. In the Whirlwind: God and Humanity in......
......that included some of the foremost scholars in the fields of law, philosophy, and economics, including Amartya Sen, MarthaC. Nussbaum, Cass R. Sunstein, Gary S. Becker, and Ric hard A. Posner. The brilliance of the authors is not to be doubted......
...Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education MarthaC. Nussbaum. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997, 328pp., $26.00 Education and Democracy: Re-imagining Liberal Learning......
......IN THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Louis Menand. New York: Norton, 2010. NOT FOR PROFIT: WHY DEMOCRACY NEEDS THE HUMANITIES MarthaC. Nussbaum. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. REVIEWED BY ELLEN SCHRECKER Higher education is in big trouble......
......disgust should play central roles in public life. But in her new book Hiding From Humanity (Princeton University Press), MarthaC. Nussbaum, a professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago, argues that these sentiments tend to distort public discussion......
...Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies about Human Cloning Edited by MarthaC. Nussbaum and Cass R. Sunstein (W' IV Norton and Company, 1998; S25) The arrival in 1996 of Dolly, cloned from the mammary cells of......
......homosexuality simply is not natural, Rice contends. "They often pull out this idea that it's unnatural," counters MarthaC. Nussbaum, noted philosopher and law professor at the University of Chicago. Obviously homosexuality occurs in nature, Nussbaum......
......of working mothers with pre- school children are employed full-time, compared with 85 per cent of childless women. MarthaNussbaum, the author of Sex and Social Justice, said: "In most nations of the world, women face unequal education and employment......
......contemporary thinkers argued the relevance of their predecessors to the world we live in, starting with the American philosopher MarthaNussbaum, who put the case for "Stoic cosmopolitanism". Cosmopolitanism was invented by Diogenes the Cynic - a man famous for......
......before Unacknowledged Legislation is given the thumbs up. Out of the nearly 40 writers commented on, only two (Parker and MarthaNussbaum) are women. I hate to sound a note of the kind of correctness so much despised by Hitchens, but I can't help wondering......
......so, we have had books on modern India by (among others) Pavan Varma, Amartya Sen, Edward Luce, Ramachandra Guha and MarthaNussbaum. Now comes Oxford academic Maria Misra's Vishnu's Crowded Temple, a long but sprightly and idiosyncratic survey of......
......write critically of friends on the right. His reiterated objects of abomination are figures such as Christopher Lasch, MarthaNussbaum, Richard Rorty and Noam Chomsky. Chomsky is reserved for particular calumny, and, while being dismissed as of no public......
......meet the needs of illegal aliens. Judge Pfaelzer, it seems, is under the influence of University of Chicago professor MarthaNussbaum, who teaches that the concept of national citizenship is too exclusive and "morally dangerous." Justice and equality......
......swearing consultant" on The Thick of It) pondering the British love of profanity (Wed). British Library, London NW1 MarthaNussbaum Thur The Chicago University law and ethics professor is in conversation about the concept of 21st-century enlightenment......
......thereby rendered immune to shame. This is a perverse outcome for moral and political philosophy, scholar and essayist MarthaNussbaum has pointed out: "We criticize a person or his behavior as `shameless' when he evinces good or confident feelings where......
......between social majorities and their minorities in the new century - its thinking somewhere between the cosmopolitanism of a MarthaNussbaum, say, and her more traditionalist critics. An earlier book, "The Imaginary Jew," concerned itself with how Jews in......
......organized to honor the work of Professor MarthaNussbaum. In her scholarship, Professor Nussbaum...After laying out this case, I discuss MarthaNussbaum's capabilities approach to fundamental...doctrines?" (1) Similarly, for MarthaNussbaum liberalism "must respect and promote......
......participate in this program recognizing the work of Professor MarthaNussbaum. A few years ago, after being fortunate enough to have...contestable. From an anti-essentialist perspective, MarthaNussbaum's liberal humanism is intrinsically suspect. Nussbaum......
...This symposium on the work of MarthaNussbaum as part of the inauguration of the program on Gender and...of gender and sexuality in contemporary U.S. policy. MarthaNussbaum's extensive body of scholarship includes a focus on a......
......pursue a slightly different route. Building upon the work of MarthaNussbaum, my eventual intent in this paper is to articulate what...the atomic bomb, illustrates this type of forgiveness. MarthaNussbaum, in several works--but most extensively in her book......
...In her book Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions, MarthaNussbaum presents a well argued philosophical theory of emotions. (1) The book offers extensive and noteworthy discussions with various......
......sparked deadly protests across the Arab world and a spate of violent incidents targeted minority groups in the United States, MarthaNussbaum's new book offered a thoughtful, timely corrective to the divisive dangers of religious intolerance, particularly Islamophobia......
...Among the many issues that feminists have debated, three stand out for their urgency and significance: the relationship of theory to practice, universalism to particularism, and the transnational to the local and national. Feminism as theory continues to have a complicated and vexed relationship to...
......Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age By MarthaC. Nussbaum Belknap Press, 304 pp., $26.95 MarthaNussbaum continues her critical reflection...terrorist, I think I would dress like MarthaNussbaum in the winter: floor-length Eddie......
......JUSTICE: DISABILITIES, NATIONALITY, SPECIES MEMBERSHIP. By MarthaC. Nussbaum.[dagger] Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. 487. $35.00. MarthaNussbaum's Frontiers of Justice1 is a major critical assessment of......
......Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future MarthaC. Nussbaum (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, Harvard University...respects the measure of successful democracy In her new book MarthaNussbaum shares this impulse to reverse American perspectives......