Martha C Nussbaum: 31 books
Women and Human Development
The Capabilities Approach
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...
Het koninkrijk van de angst
Een filosofische blik op angst als politieke emotie
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...
The New Religious Intolerance
overcoming the politics of fear in an anxious age
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.
Upheavals of Thought
The Intelligence of Emotions
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...
The Therapy of Desire
Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
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...
The Fragility of Goodness
Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
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...
by Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
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.
by Philip Fisher, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
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...
De nieuwe religieuze intolerantie
een uitweg uit de politiek van de angst
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...
Grensgebieden van het recht
over sociale rechtvaardigheid
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Theorieën over recht en rechtvaardigheid zijn altijd abstract. Toch worden ze bedacht om oplossingen te zoeken voor heel concrete, dagelijkse problemen. In Grensgebieden van het recht stelt Martha Nussbaum deze paradox aan de orde. Aan de hand van drie urgente problemen de positie van mensen met...
Love's Knowledge
Essays on Philosophy and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 1992
This volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of them previously inaccessible to non-specialist readers, deal with such fundamental issues as the relationship between style and content in...
by Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 5, 2012
In Mogelijkheden scheppen zet Nussbaum op heldere wijze de beginselen van haar benadering uiteen. In deze tijd van grote ongelijkheden laat Nussbaum zien hoe we door aandacht te besteden aan de individuele mens en aan de impact van de politiek op ieders leven, mensen overal ter wereld in staat kunnen stellen om een bevredigend en creatief leven te leiden
Envejecer con sentido
Conversaciones sobre el amor, las arrugas y otros pesares
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 26, 2018
No todos envejecemos igual, pero podemos aprender de experiencias compartidas y diferentes puntos de vista. Este libro combina cuidadosamente el enfoque de una pensadora con el de un abogado-economista para abrir un espacio de reflexión sobre una de las etapas vitales que merece mayor atención....
by 瑪莎．納思邦(Martha C. Nussbaum)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: Chinese
Release Date: October 5, 2017
政治正義讓個人與公共的道德情感持續轉變，法律思考不能自外於社會價值與個人情感。
納思邦教授以精彩論述將情感、法律、政治揉而為一，旁徵博引文學、宗教、哲學、倫理各方文獻，綴以詩歌、神話、經典，爬梳了影響現代法律形成的「憤怒」、「寬恕」等情感價值的歷史根源及脈絡，並探究它們與正義的關係。...