Martha Craven Nussbaum

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 the exploration of ethical issues; the nature of ethical attention and ethical knowledge and their relationship to written forms and styles; and the role of the emotions in deliberation and self-knowledge. Nussbaum investigates and defends a conception of ethical understanding which involves emotional as well as intellectual activity, and which gives a certain type of priority to the perception of particular people and situations rather than to abstract rules. She argues that this ethical conception cannot be completely and appropriately stated without turning to forms of writing usually considered literary rather than philosophical. It is consequently necessary to broaden our conception of moral philosophy in order to include these forms. Featuring two new essays and revised versions of several previously published essays, this collection attempts to articulate the relationship, within such a broader ethical inquiry, between literary and more abstractly theoretical elements.

Essays on Philosophy and Literature

Love's Knowledge

Sex and Social Justice

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: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous science aimed both at understanding and at producing the flourishing of human life. In this engaging book, Martha Nussbaum examines texts of philosophers committed to a therapeutic paradigm--including Epicurus, Lucretius, Sextus Empiricus, Chrysippus, and Seneca--and recovers a valuable source for our moral and political thought of today.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: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous science aimed both at understanding and at producing the flourishing of human life. In this engaging book, Martha Nussbaum examines texts of philosophers committed to a therapeutic paradigm--including Epicurus, Lucretius, Sextus Empiricus, Chrysippus, and Seneca--and recovers a valuable source for our moral and political thought of today.

Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics

The Therapy of Desire

Non per profitto. Perché le democrazie hanno bisogno della cultura umanistica

Saul Levmore

The Internet has been romanticized as a zone of freedom. The alluring combination of sophisticated technology with low barriers to entry and instantaneous outreach to millions of users has mesmerized libertarians and communitarians alike. Lawmakers have joined the celebration, passing the Communications Decency Act, which enables Internet Service Providers to allow unregulated discourse without danger of liability, all in the name of enhancing freedom of speech. But an unregulated Internet is a breeding ground for offensive conduct. At last we have a book that begins to focus on abuses made possible by anonymity, freedom from liability, and lack of oversight. The distinguished scholars assembled in this volume, drawn from law and philosophy, connect the absence of legal oversight with harassment and discrimination. Questioning the simplistic notion that abusive speech and mobocracy are the inevitable outcomes of new technology, they argue that current misuse is the outgrowth of social, technological, and legal choices. Seeing this clearly will help us to be better informed about our options. In a field still dominated by a frontier perspective, this book has the potential to be a real game changer. Armed with example after example of harassment in Internet chat rooms and forums, the authors detail some of the vile and hateful speech that the current combination of law and technology has bred. The facts are then treated to analysis and policy prescriptions. Read this book and you will never again see the Internet through rose-colored glasses.

The Offensive Internet

Nussbaum argues that disgust has long been among the fundamental motivations of those who are fighting for legal discrimination against lesbian and gay citizens. In its place she offers a "politics of humanity," based not merely on respect, but something akin to love, an active effort to see the world from their perspectives, as fellow human beings. Combining rigorous analysis of the leading constitutional cases with philosophical reflection about underlying concepts of privacy, respect, discrimination, and liberty, Nussbaum discusses issues ranging from non-discrimination and same-sex marriage to "public sex."

Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law

From Disgust to Humanity

«Pero la excelencia humana crece como una vid, nutrida del fresco rodío y alzada al humano cielo entre los hombres sabios y justos», escribe Píndaro. Los problemas suscitados por la oda de Píndaro podrán ser cualquier cosa menos insólitos, y difícilmente puede entenderse que alguna vez hayan dejado de ser considerados auténticos problemas; soy un agente, pero también un ser pasivo como la planta; gran parte de lo que no he hecho me hace acreedor al elogio o la censura; debo elegir continuamente entre bienes opuestos y aparentemente inconmensurables, y las circunstancias pueden forzarme a adoptar un curso de acción en el queno podré evitar traicionar algo o actuar mal; un hecho que simplemente me sucede, sin mi consentimiento, puede transformar mi vida; tan problemático es confiar el propio bien a los amigos, al amante o a la patria, como intentar vivir bien prescindiendo de ellos. No creo que dichos problemas sean sólo el alimento que nutre la tragedia; pienso que forman parte de los hechos cotidianos de la razón práctica.

fortuna y ética en la tragedia y la filosofía griega

La fragilidad del bien

Yuval Noah Harari

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Kate Manne

William Davies

Peter Wohlleben

Stephanie Kelton

David French

Richard Kearney

Mary Harrington

Taylor Dotson

Vinciane Despret

Patrick Stokes

Amia Srinivasan

Judith Pamela Butler

Olivier Abel

Gwenola Ricordeau

Tess Johnson

Hugo Micheron

Shane Trotter

Kmele Foster

En 2022, dans un monde en proie à une profonde incertitude, la tendance du débat public est à la polarisation idéologique et identitaire, qu'il s'agisse de la gestion de la pandémie, de la libération de la parole des femmes ou de la question de la laïcité. Donner à entendre la diversité des voix qui tentent detrouver dans l'incertitude l'occasion de relancer la pensée : telle est l'ambition de cet ouvrage qui rassemble les grands textes de philosophes, écrivains, historiens ou économistes parus dans la presse internationale en 2021, sélectionnés par la rédaction de Philosophie magazine.

22 penseurs pour 2022

The Good Society and the Deformation of Desire

Plato's Republic

An analysis of America's commitment to religious liberty uses political history, philosophical ideas, and key constitutional cases to discuss its basis in six principles: equality, respect for conscience, liberty, accommodation of minorities, nonestablishment, and separation of church and state.

In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality

Liberty of Conscience

Thom Brooks

Leading figures in politics and philosophy revitalize Rawls's prescription for a just society.

Rawls's Political Liberalism

Wendy Doniger

Based on presentations at a conference at the University of Chicago Law School in November 2005.

Debating the Hindu Right

Pluralism and Democracy in India

Cass R. Sunstein

Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics Martha Nussbaum

Examines the ethical, political, psychological, and legal ramifications of the possibility of human cloning

Facts and Fantasies about Human Cloning

Clones and Clones

Assembling a rich variety of philosophical, psychological and historical references, one of America's most influential philosophers presents a critique of the role that shame and disgust play in our lives and, in particular, in the law.

Disgust, Shame, and the Law

Hiding from Humanity

¿por qué el amor es importante para la justicia?

Emociones políticas

Amélie Rorty

Bringing together a group of outstanding new essays on Aristotle's De Anima, this book covers topics such as the relation between soul and body, sense-perception, imagination, memory, desire, and thought, which present the philosophical substance of Aristotle's views to the modern reader. The contributors write with philosophical subtlety and wide-ranging scholarship, locating their interpretations firmly within the context of Aristotle's thought as a whole.

Essays on Aristotle's De Anima

Malcolm Schofield

This systematic analysis of the Stoic school concentrates on Zeno's Republic. Using textual evidence, the author examines the Stoic ideals that initiated the natural law tradition of western political thought.

The Stoic Idea of the City

teoria e pratica nell'etica ellenistica

Terapia del desiderio

This text examines American norms of masculinity and their role in the law, with essays from legal academics, literary scholars, and judges. Together, these papers reinvigorate the law-and-literature movement by bringing a range of methodological and disciplinary perspectives to bear on the complex interactions of masculinity with both law and literature - ultimately shedding light on all three.

Masculinity in American Law and Literature

American Guy

Martha Craven Nussbaum

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