Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum is one of America’s most prominent philosophers with a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy and ethics. Currently, she is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. She previously taught at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford Universities. She also holds Associate appointments in Classics and Political Science, is a member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, a Board Member of the Human Rights Program, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1988) and the American Philosophical Society. Also, she is a Founding President and Past President of the Human Development and Capability Association and a Past President of the American Philosophical Association, Central Division. Nussbaum has 32 honorary doctorates and is an award-winning author. The Institute of Social Studies awarded its honorary doctorate to her in 2006.
Bibliography
Books
The clash within: democracy, religious violence, and India's future / Martha C. Nussbaum / M.C. NUSSBAUM. - Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007
Frontiers of justice: disability, nationality, species membership /Martha C. Nussbaum/ M.C. NUSSBAUM. - Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2006.
Education for democratic citizenship /Martha Nussbaum /M.C. NUSSBAUM. - The Hague: Institute of Social Studies (ISS), 2006.
Hiding from humanity: disgust, shame, and the law /Martha C. Nussbaum/ M.C. NUSSBAUM. - Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
For love of country? / Martha C. Nussbaum; ed. by Joshua Cohen for Boston review / M.C. NUSSBAUM J. COHEN; - Boston : Beacon Press, 2002.
Upheavals of thought: the intelligence of emotions / Martha C. Nussbaum / M.C. NUSSBAUM. - Cambridge [etc.]: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
The fragility of goodness: luck and ethics in Greek tragedy and philosophy / Martha C. Nussbaum / M.C. NUSSBAUM. - [2nd] rev. ed. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Women and human development: the capabilities approach / Martha C. Nussbaum / M.C. NUSSBAUM. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Sex and social justice /Martha C. Nussbaum/ M.C. NUSSBAUM. - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Cultivating humanity: a classical defense of reform in liberal education / Martha C. Nussbaum / M.C. NUSSBAUM. - Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1997.
The therapy of desire: theory and practice in Hellenistic ethics / Martha C. Nussbaum / M.C. NUSSBAUM. - Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Women, culture, and development: a study of human capabilities / ed. by Martha C. Nussbaum and Jonathan Glover / M.C. NUSSBAUM J. GLOVER;. - Oxford : Clarendon Press.- (WIDER studies in development economics), Prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) of the United Nations University, 1995.
The quality of life / ed. by Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen / M.C. NUSSBAUM A. SEN; – Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
Poetic justice: the literary imagination and public life / Martha C. Nussbaum / M.C. NUSSBAUM. - Boston, MA: Beacon Press Alexander Rosenthal lectures, 1991.
Love's knowledge: essays on philosophy and literature / Martha C. Nussbaum / M.C. NUSSBAUM. - New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Nature, function and capability: Aristotle on political distribution / M.C. NUSSBAUM. - Helsinki: World Institute for Development Economics Research of the UN University (UNU/WIDER), 1987.
Aristotle's 'De motu animalium/ text with translation, commentary and interpretive essays by Martha Craven Nussbaum / ARISTOTLE M.C. NUSSBAUM; - Reprint with corrections. - Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Articles and chapters
"'By Words, Not Arms': Lucretius on Anger and Aggression," in The Poetics of Therapy, Apeiron 23 (1990) 41-90.
"Poets as Judges: Judicial Rhetoric and the Literary Imagination," University of Chicago Law Review 62 (1995) 1477-1519.
"Women and Equality: The Capabilities Approach," International Labour Review 138 (1999), 227-45.
"Sex, Laws, and Inequality: What India Can Teach the United States," Daedalus Winter 2002, 95-106.
"Philosophy and Literature." The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy, ed. David Sedley. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003: 211-41.
“Analytic Love and Human Vulnerability: A Comment on Lawrence Friedman’s ‘Is there a Special Psychoanalytic Love?’” Journal of the American Psyhoanalytic Association 53 (2005), 377-84.
"Radical Evil in the Lockean State: The Neglect of the Political Emotions," Journal of Moral Philosophy 3 (2006), 159-78.
"Liberty of Conscience: The Attack on Equal Respect," Journal of Human Development 8 (2007), 337-58.
"'Where the Dark Feelings Hold Sway': Running to Music," in Running and Philosophy, ed. Michael W. Austin (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007), 181-92.
"Carr, Before and After: Power and Sex in Carr v. Allison Gas Turbine Division, General Motors Corp," The University of Chicago Law Review 74 (2007), 1831-1844.
"In Defense of Universal Values" (a version of chapter 1 of Women and Human Development), in Social Development, Social Inequalities, and Social Justice, ed. Cecilia Wainryb, Judith G. Smetana, and Elliott Turiel (New York: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2008), 209-34.
"10 x !0: 10 years, 10 question," The Philosophers' Magazine issue 40 (2008), my part on 51-54.
"Beyond Toleration to Equal Respect," Seminar, Issue on India 2007 (January 2008), 100-104.
Other resources
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