Martha Nussbaum: 36 books

Book cover of Cultivating Humanity

Cultivating Humanity

A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education

by Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998

How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such “citizens of the world”...
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Woede en vergeving

wrok, ruimhartigheid, gerechtigheid

by Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 3, 2016

‘Woede en vergeving’ van Martha Nussbaum (o.a. hoogleraar recht en ethiek aan de universiteit van Chicago) is een pleidooi voor grootmoedigheid, rechtvaardigheid en waarheid als alternatief voor woede, wraak en, verrassend genoeg, vergeving. Nussbaum betoogt dat de invoering van het rechtssysteem...
Book cover of Philosophical Interventions

Philosophical Interventions

Reviews 1986-2011

by Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012

This volume collects the notable published book reviews of Martha C. Nussbaum, an acclaimed philosopher who is also a professor of law and a public intellectual. Her academic work focuses on questions of moral and political philosophy and on the nature of the emotions. But over the past 25 years she...
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De breekbaarheid van het goede

geluk en ethiek in de Griekse filosofie en literatuur

by Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 27, 2011

In De breekbaarheid van het goede bestudeert Martha Nussbaum verschillende opvattingen over moreel geluk uit de Oudheid. Daarbij gaat ze in op het fundamentele ethische probleem van de weerloosheid van het waardevolle: dat wat de klassieke filosofen als grondleggend beschouwen voor een goed en gelukkig...
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Oplevingen van het denken

over de menselijke emoties

by Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 27, 2011

Oplevingen van het denken' is het magnum opus van Martha Nussbaum. Dit meesterstuk is gewijd aan de emoties. Nussbaum laat zien hoe door de eeuwen heen gedacht en geschreven is over de emoties, niet alleen in de filosofie, maar ook in de literatuur en andere kunsten: zij ontleent diepe inzichten aan...
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Women and Human Development

The Capabilities Approach

by Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2000

In this major book Martha Nussbaum, one of the most innovative and influential philosophical voices of our time, proposes a kind of feminism that is genuinely international, argues for an ethical underpinning to all thought about development planning and public policy, and dramatically moves beyond...
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Het koninkrijk van de angst

Een filosofische blik op angst als politieke emotie

by Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 25, 2018

In ‘Het koninkrijk van de angst’ merkt filosofe Martha Nussbaum op dat het politieke debat sterk is gepolariseerd en dat we niet meer in staat lijken met elkaar te communiceren. Ze is niet de enige die dat doorheeft, maar ziet wel een simpel feit dat vaak over het hoofd wordt gezien als de kern...
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The New Religious Intolerance

overcoming the politics of fear in an anxious age

by Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012

Drawing inspiration from philosophy, history, and literature, Martha C. Nussbaum takes us to task for our religious intolerance, identifies the fear behind it, and offers a way past fear toward a more equitable, imaginative, and free society, through the consistent application of universal principles of respect for conscience.
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The Therapy of Desire

Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics

by Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013

The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance. In this classic work, Martha Nussbaum maintains that these Hellenistic schools have been unjustly neglected in recent...
Book cover of The Fragility of Goodness

The Fragility of Goodness

Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy

by Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001

This book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'. It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their lives. The Greeks made...
Book cover of Political Emotions
by Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Martha Nussbaum asks: How can we sustain a decent society that aspires to justice and inspires sacrifice for the common good? Amid negative emotions endemic even to good societies, public emotions rooted in love--intense attachments outside our control--can foster commitment to shared goals and keep at bay the forces of disgust and envy.
Book cover of Upheavals of Thought

Upheavals of Thought

The Intelligence of Emotions

by Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2001

Emotions shape the landscape of our mental and social lives. Like geological upheavals in a landscape, they mark our lives as uneven, uncertain and prone to reversal. Are they simply, as some have claimed, animal energies or impulses with no connection to our thoughts? Or are they rather suffused...
Book cover of Goodness and Advice:
by Philip Fisher, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009

How should we live? What do we owe to other people? In Goodness and Advice, the eminent philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson explores how we should go about answering such fundamental questions. In doing so, she makes major advances in moral philosophy, pointing to some deep problems for influential...
Book cover of De nieuwe religieuze intolerantie

De nieuwe religieuze intolerantie

een uitweg uit de politiek van de angst

by Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 28, 2013

Hoe komt het dat sommige kranten de moord op 77 Noren toeschreven aan islamitische extremisten, totdat duidelijk werd dat een rechtse terrorist de dader was? Waarom werden in Zwitserland, een land van vier minaretten, middels een referendum deze bouwwerken verboden? Hoe kan het dat het plan voor een...
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