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Martha Nussbaum

University of Chicago
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  • University of Chicago
    Department of Philosophy
    Regular Faculty
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Areas of Interest
17th/18th Century Philosophy
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  • The Transfigurations of Intoxication: Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Dionysus
    Arion 1 (2). 1993.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
  •  3
    The central human capabilities
    Ethics 111 6-7. 2000.
    Value TheoryEquality and Capabilities
  •  73
    Reply to Richard Eldridge's' Reading for Life': Martha C. Nussbaum on Philosophy and Literature
    Arion 2 198. 1992.
    Social and Political PhilosophyEquality and Capabilities
  •  7
    Equilibrium: Scepticism and Immersion in Political Deliberation
    Acta Philosophica Fennica 66 171-198. 2000.
    Social and Political PhilosophyDeliberative Democracy
  •  89
    Humanities and Human Development
    The Journal of Aesthetic Education 36 (3): 39. 2002.
    Social and Political PhilosophyEthics
  • Review Symposium: Hiding from Humanity by Martha Nussbaum
    with William Charlton, John Haldane, David Archard, and Thom Brooks
    Journal of Applied Philosophy 25 (4): 291-349. 2008.
    symposium.
    Applied Ethics
  •  195
    Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
    Princeton University Press. 2010.
    "--Peter Brooks, Princeton University "This is an important book and a superb piece of writing, combining passionate enthusiasm with calm arguments and informative examples.
    Social and Political PhilosophyPhilosophy of Education
  •  28
    Commentary on Kamtekar
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 24 (1): 151. 2009.
    Socrates
  •  202
    Singing in the Fire: Stories of Women in Philosophy
    with Sandra Bartky, Teresa Brennan, Claudia Card, Virginia Held, Alison M. Jaggar, Stephanie Lewis, Uma Narayan, Andrea Nye, Kristin Schrader-Frechette, Ofelia Schutte, and Karen Warren
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2003.
    This is a unique, groundbreaking collection of autobiographical essays by leading women in philosophy. It provides a glimpse at the experiences of the generation that witnessed, and helped create, the remarkable advances now evident for women in the field.
    Feminist EthicsEthics
  •  5
    10 X 10: 10 years, 10 questions
    Philosophers’ Magazine 40 54. 2008.
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    Libertarianism: For and Against (edited book)
    with Craig Duncan and Tibor R. Machan
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005.
    Libertarianism: For and Against offers dueling perspectives on the scope of legitimate government. Tibor R. Machan, a well-known libertarian philosopher, argues for a minimal government devoted solely to protecting individual rights to life, liberty, and property. Against this view, philosopher Craig Duncan defends democratic liberalism, which aims to ensure that all citizens have fair access to a life of dignity. In a dynamic exchange of arguments, the two philosophers cut to the heart of this …Read more
    Libertarianism: For and Against offers dueling perspectives on the scope of legitimate government. Tibor R. Machan, a well-known libertarian philosopher, argues for a minimal government devoted solely to protecting individual rights to life, liberty, and property. Against this view, philosopher Craig Duncan defends democratic liberalism, which aims to ensure that all citizens have fair access to a life of dignity. In a dynamic exchange of arguments, the two philosophers cut to the heart of this important debate.
    Political Libertarianism
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    Utilitarianism and Empire (edited book)
    with David Theo Goldberg, H. S. Jones, Javed Majeed, J. Joseph Miller, Jennifer Pitts, Frederick Rosen, and David Weinstein
    Lexington Books. 2005.
    The classical utilitarian legacy of Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill, James Mill, and Henry Sidgwick has often been charged with both theoretical and practical complicity in the growth of British imperialism and the emerging racialist discourse of the nineteenth century. But there has been little scholarly work devoted to bringing together the conflicting interpretive perspectives on this legacy and its complex evolution with respect to orientalism and imperialism. This volume, with contributions by l…Read more
    The classical utilitarian legacy of Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill, James Mill, and Henry Sidgwick has often been charged with both theoretical and practical complicity in the growth of British imperialism and the emerging racialist discourse of the nineteenth century. But there has been little scholarly work devoted to bringing together the conflicting interpretive perspectives on this legacy and its complex evolution with respect to orientalism and imperialism. This volume, with contributions by leading scholars in the field, represents the first attempt to survey the full range of current scholarly controversy on how the classical utilitarians conceived of 'race' and the part it played in their ethical and political programs, particularly with respect to such issues as slavery and the governance of India. The book both advances our understanding of the history of utilitarianism and imperialism and promotes the scholarly debate, clarifying the major points at issue between those sympathetic to the utilitarian legacy and those critical of it
    John Stuart Mill
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    9 A Novel in Which Nothing Happens: Fontane's Der Stechlin and Literary Friendship
    In Alice Crary (ed.), Wittgenstein and the Moral Life: Essays in Honor of Cora Diamond, Mit Press. pp. 327. 2007.
    Ethics
  •  113
    The Capabilities Approach and Ethical Cosmopolitanism: The Challenge of Political Liberalism1
    In Maria Rovisco & Magdalena Nowicka (eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism, Ashgate. pp. 403. 2011.
    Moral Cosmopolitanism
  •  3
    Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Dionysus
    In Christopher Janaway (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer, Cambridge University Press. pp. 344--74. 1999.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
  •  13
    Why Practice Needs Ethical Theory: Particularism, Principle, and Bad Behaviour
    In Brad Hooker & Margaret Olivia Little (eds.), Moral particularism, Oxford University Press. pp. 227--55. 2000.
    Anti-TheoryMoral Particularism
  •  3
    14 Non-Relative Virtues
    In Paul K. Moser (ed.), Moral Relativism: A Reader, Oup Usa. pp. 199. 2000.
    Value Theory, Miscellaneous
  • Ricoeur on Tragedy: Teleology, Deontology, and Phronesis
    In John Wall, William Schweiker & W. David Hall (eds.), Paul Ricoeur and contemporary moral thought, Routledge. 2002.
    Paul Ricoeur
  •  66
    Shame, Separateness, and Political Unity: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato
    In Amélie Oksenberg Rorty (ed.), Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics, University of California Press. pp. 395-436. 1980.
    Classical Greek PhilosophyAristotlePlatoSocial and Political Philosophy
  •  4
    Saving Aristotle's appearances
    In M. Nussbaum & M. Schofield (eds.), Language and Logos: Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy Presented to G. E. L. Owen, Cambridge University Press. pp. 267--94. 1981.
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    2. The General Approach of Frontiers of Justice The general task of Frontiers of Justice was to continue a project I began in Women and Human Development (2000), confronting my version of the (review)
    In Eva Feder Kittay & Licia Carlson (eds.), Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 75. 2010.
    EthicsVarieties of Justice
  •  107
    Commentary on Halperin
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 5 (1): 53-72. 1989.
    Plato's Works
  •  37
    Subversion and Sympathy: Gender, Law, and the British Novel (edited book)
    with Alison L. LaCroix
    Oup Usa. 2013.
    This interdisciplinary volume of contributed essays focuses on issues of gender in the British novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly Hardy and Trollope. Approaching the topic from a variety of backgrounds the contributors reinvigorate the law-and-literature movement by displaying a range of ways in which literature and law can illuminate one another, and in which the conversation between them can illuminate deeper human issues with which both disciplines are concerned
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    Beyond 'compassion and humanity': Justice for nonhuman animals
    In Cass R. Sunstein & Martha Craven Nussbaum (eds.), Animal rights: current debates and new directions, Oxford University Press. pp. 299--320. 2004.
    This chapter discusses the application of the capabilities approach to the question of animal rights. It explains that this approach provides better theoretical guidance on the issue of animal entitlements over contractarian and utilitarian approaches because it is capable of recognising a wide range of types of animal dignity and of corresponding needs for flourishing. The chapter criticises the view of philosopher Immanuel Kant and his followers that mistreatment of animals does not raise ques…Read more
    This chapter discusses the application of the capabilities approach to the question of animal rights. It explains that this approach provides better theoretical guidance on the issue of animal entitlements over contractarian and utilitarian approaches because it is capable of recognising a wide range of types of animal dignity and of corresponding needs for flourishing. The chapter criticises the view of philosopher Immanuel Kant and his followers that mistreatment of animals does not raise questions of justice and suggests that the claims of animals should be rooted in an understanding of what sorts of capabilities animals have.
    Ethics
  •  8
    Aristotelian dualism: reply to Howard Robinson
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 2 197-207. 1984.
    Classical Greek PhilosophyAristotle: Metaphysics
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    Spaces of Democracy: Geographical Perspectives on Citizenship, Participation and Representation
    Contemporary Political Theory 5 (2): 224-226. 2006.
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    La imaginación literaria en la vida pública
    Isegoría 11 42-80. 1995.
    La literatura y la imaginación literaria pueden tener un efecto subversivo frente a la idea de racionalidad expresada habitualmente por la ciencia económica utilitarista. Por ello, la literatura debe formar parte de una educación en favor de una idea de racionalidad pública más amplia que la idea de individuo como maxímizador de utilidades. A través del análisis de la novela de Dickens Tiempos difíciles, se llega a la conclusión de que sólo la imaginación proporcionada por las novelas -y no por …Read more
    La literatura y la imaginación literaria pueden tener un efecto subversivo frente a la idea de racionalidad expresada habitualmente por la ciencia económica utilitarista. Por ello, la literatura debe formar parte de una educación en favor de una idea de racionalidad pública más amplia que la idea de individuo como maxímizador de utilidades. A través del análisis de la novela de Dickens Tiempos difíciles, se llega a la conclusión de que sólo la imaginación proporcionada por las novelas -y no por los libros de. economía política- puede ser la base para gobernar adecuadamente un país de personas libres e iguales o para desarrollar nuestra vida cotidiana como ciudadanos.
    Value TheorySocial and Political Philosophy
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    Genética y Justicia: Tratar la enfermedad, respetar la diferencia
    Isegoría 27 5-17. 2002.
    Las nuevas posibilidades abiertas por la investigación científica, especialmente en el campo de la genética, por un lado generan interrogantes morales hasta ahora desconocidos y, por otro, nos obligan a reformular de una manera totalmente nueva cuestiones y conceptos que hasta ahora funcionaban de forma adecuada. Así ocurre, por ejemplo, con las teorías de la justicia: estamos acostumbrados a que exista un acuerdo relativamente amplio en torno al concepto de persona, y la discusión se suele cent…Read more
    Las nuevas posibilidades abiertas por la investigación científica, especialmente en el campo de la genética, por un lado generan interrogantes morales hasta ahora desconocidos y, por otro, nos obligan a reformular de una manera totalmente nueva cuestiones y conceptos que hasta ahora funcionaban de forma adecuada. Así ocurre, por ejemplo, con las teorías de la justicia: estamos acostumbrados a que exista un acuerdo relativamente amplio en torno al concepto de persona, y la discusión se suele centrar en el tipo de bienes que habrían de distribuirse entre un conjunto dado de individuos. Pero la posibilidad de transformar los talentos personales y, así, modificar algunos rasgos de nuestra población de acuerdo con criterios actuales, abre un importante debate en la medida en que dichos cambios pueden considerarse recursos y, así, objeto de redistribución. Por otro lado, el hecho de que ciertas alteraciones puedan o incluso deban realizarse con vistas al bien de futuros individuos conlleva el riesgo de que se abra paso una homogeneización social empobrecedora o de que se eliminen valiosas formas de vida y de cultura. Dado que esta incipiente posibilidad plantea aporías y amenazas inquietantes, la reflexión rigurosa constituye una herramienta crítica fundamental e imprescindible.
    Value Theory
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    Political Liberalism and Respect: A Response to Linda Barclay
    SATS 4 (2): 25-44. 2003.
    Political Liberalism
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    Introduction
    Apeiron 23 (4): 1-6. 1990.
    Ancient Greek and Roman PhilosophyPlato's Works
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