Martha C Nussbaum

Philosophical Interventions

Reviews 1986-2011

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume collects the notable published book reviews of Martha C. Nussbaum.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 169mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 711g
• ISBN-13: 9780199777853
• ISBN-10: 0199777853
• Artikelnr.: 33863990

Autorenporträt

Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Love's Knowledge, Sex and Social Justice, Animal Rights (edited with Cass Sunstein), and From Disgust to Humanitiy, among many.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction * 1. "Women's Lot
" review of Jane Roland Martin
Reclaiming a Conversation: The Ideal of the Educated Woman
The New York Review of Books
January 30
1986. * 2. "Sex in the Head
" review of Roger Scruton
Sexual Desire: A Moral Philosophy of the Erotic
The New York Review of Books
December 18
1986. * 3. "Undemocratic Vistas
" review of Allan Bloom
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students
The New York Review of Books
November 5
1987. * 4. "Recoiling from Reason
" review of Alasdair MacIntyre
Whose Justice? Which Rationality
The New York Review of Books
December 7
1989. * 5. "The Bondage and Freedom of Eros
" Review of David Halperin
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and Other Essays on Greek Love and John J. Winkler
The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Greece
The Times Literary Supplement
June 1990. * 6. "Our Pasts
Ourselves
" review of Charles Taylor
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
The New Republic
April 9
1990. * 7. "The Chill of Virtue
" review of Gregory Vlastos
Socrates
Ironist and Moral Philosopher
The New Republic
September 15
1991. * 8. "Venus in Robes
" review of Richard Posner
Sex and Reason
The New Republic
April 20
1992. * 9. "Justice for Women!"
review of Susan Moller Okin
Justice
Gender
and the Family
The New York Review of Books
October 8
1992. * 10. "Divided We Stand
" review of William Bennett
The Book of Virtues
The New Republic
December 1993. * 11. "Looking Good
Being Good
" review of Anne Hollander
Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress (and two other books)
The New Republic
January 2
1995. * 12. "Feminists and Philosophy
" review of Louise B. Antony and Charlotte Witt
eds.
A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity
The New York Review of Books
October 20
1994. Letters and Reply
April 6
1995. * 13. "Unlocal Hero
" review of Kristen Renwick Monroe
The Heart of Altruism: Perceptions of a Common Humanity and Tzvetan Todorov
Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps
The New Republic
October 28
1996. * 14. "Foul Play
" review of William Ian Miller
The Anatomy of Disgust
The New Republic
November 17
1997. * 15. "If Oxfam Ran the World
" review of Peter Unger
Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence
The London Review of Books
September 4
1997. Letters and Reply
October 2
1997. * 16. "The Professor of Parody
" review of four books by Judith Butler
The New Republic February 22
1999. Letters and Reply
April 19
1999. * 17. "Experiments in Living
" review of Michael Warner
The Trouble With Normal: Sex
Politics
and the Ethics of Queer Life
The New Republic
January 3
2000. * 18. Review of Allen Buchanan
Dan W. Brock
Norman Daniels
and Daniel Wikler
From Chance to Choice; Genetics and Justice
The New Republic
December 4
2000. * 19. "Disabled Lives: Who Cares?"
review of Eva Feder Kittay
Love's Labor: Essays on Women
Equality
and Dependency; Michael Bérubé
Life As We Know It: A Father
a Family
and an Exceptional Child; and Joan Williams
Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It. The New York Review of Books January 11
2001. * 20. "When She Was Good
" review of Peter J. Conradi
Iris Murdoch: A Life
The New Republic January 7
2002. * 21. "Dr. True Self
" review of F. Robert Rodman
Winnicott: Life and Work
The New Republic October 27
2003. * 22. "For Once Clear to See
" review of Mary Kinzie
Drift
Poetry 183 (January 2004)
235-38. * 23. "The Founder
" review of Judith M. Brown
Nehru: A Political Life and Shashi Tharoor
Nehru: The Invention of India
The New Republic
February 14
2005. * 24. "Epistemology of the Closet
" review of Bart Schultz
Henry Sidgwick: The Eye of the Universe
The Nation
June 6
2005. * 25. "The Prohibition Era
" review of Kenji Yoshino
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
The New Republic
March 20
2006. * 26. "Man Overboard
" review of Harvey C. Mansfield
Manliness
The New Republic
June 26
2006. * 27. "Legal Weapon
" review of Catharine A. MacKinnon
Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues. The Nation
July 31/August 7
2006. * 28. Review of Martha Alter Chen
Perpetual Mourning: Widowhood in Rural India; Martha Alter Chen
wed.
Widows in India: Social Neglect and Public Action; Deepa Mehta
Water (film); Bapsi Sidhwa
Water: A Novel; Devyani Saltzman
Shooting Water: A memoir of Second Chances
Family
and Filmmaking. Unpublished
written late 2006. * 29. "Texts for Torturers
" review of Philip Zimbardo
The Lucifer Effect
The Times Literary Supplement
October 19
2007. * 30. "Stages of Thought
" review of A. D. Nuttall
Shakespeare the Thinker
Colin McGinn
Shakespeare's Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays
and Tzachi Zamir
Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama
The New Republic
May 7
2008. * 31. "The Passion Fashion
" review of Cristina Nehring
A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century
The New Republic
September 23
2009. * 32. "Becky
Tess
and Moll
" review of Nicola Lacey
Women
Crime
and Character: From Moll Flanders to Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Times Literary Supplement
September 18
2009. * 33. "Examined Life (Inheriting Socrates)
" review of Astra Taylor
The Examined Life (film)
The Point 2 (winter 2010). * 34. "Representative Woman
" review of Christine Stansell
The Feminist Promise: 1792 to the Present
The Nation
October 25
2010. * 35. review of Stefan Collni
That's Offensive!
The New Statesman March 2011.