Philosophical Interventions: Reviews 1986-2011This 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 has also written many book reviews for a general public, in periodicals such as The New Republic and The New York Review of Books. Dating from 1986 to the present, these essays engage, constructively and also critically, with authors like Roger Scruton, Allan Bloom, Charles Taylor, Judith Butler, Richard Posner, Catharine MacKinnon, Susan Moller Okin, and other prominent intellectuals of our time. Throughout, her views defy ideological predictability, heralding valuable work from little-known sources, deftly criticizing where criticism is due, and generally providing a compelling picture of how philosophy in the Socratic tradition can engage with broad social concerns. For this volume, Nussbaum provides an intriguing introduction that explains her selection and provides her view of the role of the public philosopher. |
Contents
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Womens Lot | 17 |
Sex in the Head | 27 |
Undemocratic Vistas | 36 |
Recoiling from Reason | 53 |
The Bondage and Freedom of Eros | 69 |
Our Pasts Ourselves | 79 |
The Chill of Virtue | 93 |
Disabled Lives Who Cares? | 246 |
When She Was Good | 259 |
Dr True Self | 274 |
For Once Clear to See | 285 |
The Founder | 289 |
Epistemology of the Closet | 301 |
The Prohibition Era | 308 |
Man Overboard | 319 |
Venus in Robes | 103 |
Justice for Women | 115 |
Divided We Stand | 130 |
Looking Good Being Good | 138 |
Feminists and Philosophy | 149 |
Unlocal Hero | 167 |
Foul Play | 177 |
If Oxfam Ran the World | 187 |
The Professor of Parody | 198 |
Experiments in Living | 223 |
Review | 234 |
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