books by Martha C. Nussbaum

books by Martha C. Nussbaum

books:

Martha C. Nussbaum

Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education

Martha C. Nussbaum

Harvard University Press, 1998

Problematic, but will still provoke...
I'm not enough of a scholar to evaluate Nussbaums's treatment of "The Clouds" or Rousseau (are you?) but her treatment of the major topics is thought provoking -- and thus the book is well worth reading. The only significant flaws I stumbled upon were her dismissal ...

Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life

Martha C. Nussbaum

Beacon Press, 1997

The relevance of literature
I read this book alongside Rorty's "Achieving Our Country." Both are concerned with similar themes; I was interested especially in how both authors addressed the relevance of literature in shaping our moral and political beliefs. But whereas Rorty's consideration of ...

Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions

Martha C. Nussbaum

Cambridge University Press, 2003

Excellent defence of the emotions in Philosophy
In the past few centuries or so of Philosophy, except for Hume's dictum 'Reason ought to be the slave of the passions', Philosophers have generally tried to expunge the emotions and the subjective as much as possible from their explorations of questions such as the ...

Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (The Tanner Lectures on Human Values)

Martha C. Nussbaum

Belknap Press, 2007

What Constitutes A Life Worthy of Human Dignity?
Martha Nussbaum is a promoter of the capabilities approach, a school of thought that seeks to delineate the conditions for a just and decent world based on what people are actually able to be and to do (their "capabilities") in order to lead a life worthy of human ...

The Black Prince (Penguin Classics)

Iris Murdoch

Penguin Classics, 2003

And Funny, Too.
Just adding to the plethora of reviews and putting in my two or three cents. Dame Iris is said to have possessed a prodigious and heavy intellect. And one can see, in reading her works, that this is very true. She is able to see into all the various emotional responses ...

Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?

Susan Moller Okin

Princeton University Press, 1999

Multiculturalism, Feminism and Liberalism
This book is designed around the first essay, "Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?" The premise of the essay is that liberalism has long advocated both multiculturalism and feminism as philosophies not in conflict with one another. However, what is the obligation of ...

The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy

Martha C. Nussbaum

Cambridge University Press, 2001

What were they reading?
In this book, Ms. Nussbaum takes on one of the most challenging and heart-rending questions raised by the ancient poets and philosophers: what is the relationship between goodness (good character, right action) and having a good life (happiness, human flourishing)? ...

Women and Human Development

Martha C. Nussbaum

Cambridge University Press, 2001

Read this book
Nussbaum's book is excellent reading for those with little background in philosophy or economics. She explains her important ideas about the goals of development very clearly. The point of development is to permit people to achieve a fully human functioning. What she ...

For Love of Country?

Martha C. Nussbaum

Beacon Press, 2002

interesting book
This is a collection of essays that discusses and debates the ideas of patriotism and cosmopolitanism. The idea of being a "citizen of the world" is very fascinating and complex, it is of course naturally apart of any discourse regarding globalization. I think this ...

Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

The New Standard
Nussbaum and Sunstein have put together something very special. This book mixes the standard animal rights fare of Singer, Wise, and Francione with exciting new contributions by thinkers like Catharine MacKinnon, Richard Posner, as well as Sunstein and Nussbaum ...

Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature

Martha C. Nussbaum

Oxford University Press, USA, 1992

required reading
This collection of essays is not only a first-rate work in the philosophy of literature, but it goes beyond the limits of that heading to sound out the philosophical implications of the literary works themselves. It begins by raising the question, so often unhappily ...

The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome

University Of Chicago Press, 2002

Needed Background
The moral understanding of the Greek and Roman world has a real application in our time. It is not that we should emulate their beliefs, it is that we need to understand their beliefs. Much of the New Testament is written to Greek and Roman people. When Paul, or ...

Essays on Aristotle's De Anima

Oxford University Press, USA, 1995

All Humans Desire To Know
I read these works for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. Soul- De Anima Latin for Greek word Psuche=Life. It is a Phenomenology of Life. Living things are Aristotle¡¦s primary interest. Renee Descartes says thinking is only aspect of soul, not life. For Descartes ...

Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law

Martha C. Nussbaum

Princeton University Press, 2006

Excellent!
This is a remarkable book. As a gay man, I found myself saying "thank you" outloud as I finished each chapter. Nussbaum is more than just a wonderful American philosopher, she's a national treasure. If you haven't read her exchange with the, in my opnion, evil ...

Goodness and Advice (The University Center for Human Values Series)

Judith Jarvis Thomson

Princeton University Press, 2003

a peculiar book
There is a rather peculiar book. Thompson's main goal is to criticize consequentialism but it appears that most consequentialists don't even accept the consequentialism that is her target, namely some kind of view that says we should promote *goodness simpliciter*, ...