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
Review of Roger Scruton | |
Review of Allan Bloom The Closing of | |
Review of Alasdair MacIntyre | |
Review of John J Winkler | |
Review of Charles Taylor | |
Judith Butler Excitable Speech The Psychic Life of Power | |
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN | |
CHAPTER NINETEEN | |
Review of Peter J Conradi | |
CHAPTER TWENTYONE | |
Review of Mary Kinzie Drift | |
Review of Judith M Brown Nehru A Political Life | |
Review of Kenji Yoshino | |
Review of Gregory Vlastos | |
Review of Richard Posner Sex and Reason 103 | |
Judith Shklar The Faces of Injustice in The New Republic | |
Review of William J Bennett | |
Review of Anne Hollander | |
Review of Louise B Antony | |
A Reath B Herman and C Korsgaard eds Reclaiming | |
Review of Kristen Renwick Monroe | |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN | |
Review of Harvey C Mansfield Manliness | |
Martha Alter Chen Perpetual Mourning | |
CHAPTER TWENTYNINE | |
Review of Philip Zimbardo The Lucifer Effect | |
Review of Cristina Nehring | |
CHAPTER THIRTYTWO | |
Review of Astra Taylor | |
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