Martha Nussbaum

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Martha Nussbaum (born Martha Craven on May 6, 1947 in New York City ; also: Martha C. Nussbaum , Martha Craven Nussbaum ) is a philosopher and professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago .

Life

Youth and Studies

Nussbaum is the daughter of George Craven, a successful lawyer who had worked his way up to a partner in a large law firm from a humble background, and Betty Warren, an interior designer who had given up her job in favor of the family. According to his own admission, Nussbaum learned from her father the diligence and striving to exhaust her skills as much as possible. On the other hand, thanks to her mother, whose family history goes back to the Mayflower , she realized that feelings and emotions also play an important role in a good life. The family moved to Philadelphia shortly after she was born . Martha Craven grew up in a wealthy, white and Protestant environment in the suburb of Bryn Mawr , where money and status played an important role (see White Anglo-Saxon Protestant ). With a distance to these experiences that arose in her youth, she explains her rejection of self-stylized elites , be it the " Bloomsbury Group or Derrida ."

After high school, where she had already written a five-act play about Robespierre and performed as Joan of Arc , she attended the liberal, but not yet co-educational Wellesley College from 1964 to 1966 . Craven then studied classical philology (classics) and theater studies at New York University . After a year she gave up training as an actress because she realized that she would rather interpret the texts. She then did her BA in 1969 and continued her studies at Harvard University . In the same year she married Alan J. Nussbaum, who later became professor of classical philology and linguistics. On the occasion of the marriage, Nussbaum converted to Judaism . In 1971 and 1972 she was a teaching fellow at the Graduate School of Arts & Science at Harvard. Their daughter Rachel was born in 1972. She also obtained her MA in 1972

Although she was exempt from teaching for three years after the birth of her daughter, Nussbaum had the feeling of considerable discrimination, including sexual harassment, during her graduate studies; in particular, she lacked consideration for the need to be able to provide for her daughter. When she became the first woman to be a Junior Fellow at Harvard in 1972, she received a congratulation from an established philologist who suggested that instead of the clumsy term "female fellow", it would be better to use the term " hetaera " (literally "companion, friend, comrade") ), a term known to all classical scholars for an educated prostitute in ancient Greece.

At Harvard, she came to appreciate Bernard Williams while he was visiting professor in 1973. She attended a seminar on "Moral Luck" with him. She also received positive impulses from Hilary Putnam and John Rawls , who advised her not only to write for a specialist audience, but also for a broader public. In 1973 and 1974 she held a paid teaching position in the Senior Common Room of St. Hugh's College, Oxford University . Your Ph.D. in classical philology she acquired it in 1975 from the Aristotle connoisseur GEL Owen with a work on the work De Motu Animalium / Περὶ ζῴων κινήσεως by Aristotle, which was published as a book in 1978.

Teaching and research for the United Nations University

After graduating, Nussbaum taught at Harvard for eight years, until 1980 as an assistant professor and until 1983 as an associate professor, albeit without a permanent position after an application for tenure at the philological faculty had been rejected. In 1984 she moved to Brown University as a tenured Associate Professor , where she became Professor of Philosophy, Classical Philology and Comparative Literature in 1985. A work that integrates these three areas is The Fragility of Goodness , her first book on ethics from 1986, with which she became known to a wider public. In this work, she describes the discussion about the question of whether a good and virtuous person can always lead a good life despite the constant presence of contingent strokes of fate. Using examples from ancient tragedy poets, she rejects Plato's rationalism and agrees with Aristotle in the view that the idea of ​​a happy life is always in conflict with an uncontrollable fate. In 1987 she was appointed David Benedict Professor at Brown University. Their marriage ended in divorce that same year; but she kept her Jewish faith .

At a seminar in 1986 she met Amartya Sen and accepted the invitation to support his work with arguments from a philosophical point of view. From 1987 to 1993 she worked as a research advisor at the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) in Helsinki , a department of the United Nations University (UNU). During this time, Sen was also her life partner for several years. In her project, for which she worked in Helsinki for one month every year, she led a working group to develop a concept for measuring the quality of life in developing countries. Subject was especially designed by Sen formal approach ( Capability Approach ), which on the Human Development Index and the Human Poverty Index entry into the World Development Reports of the United Nations Development Program has found (UNDP) and the international research on poverty and inequality. Nussbaum familiarized himself with the reality of India and later carried out his own field studies there. In the course of time she developed her own, universalistic variant of the concept, which, in addition to the representations of Sens, contains a concrete list of the factors of a good life. One of the first outcomes of the work at WIDER was the extensive essay "Aristotelian Social Democracy" from 1990. The research results were published in the books The Quality of Life (1993 with Amartya Sen) and Woman, Culture and Development (1995 with Jonathan Glover) .

Nussbaum's book Love's Knowledge from 1990 is the continuation of her cultural-philosophical program of combining philosophy and literature, now also with modern works such as novels by Henry James . One of the main statements of the book is that literature provides insights and truths that are not accessible through philosophical analysis alone, because they do not adequately capture the particular individual case. In 1990 she received the Brandeis Creative Arts Award in the field of non-fiction and in 1991 the PEN Spielvogel-Diamondsten Award for the best collection of articles.

In 1993 she was allowed to give the Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh . With the topic "Need and Recognition: A Theory of Emotions" (Eng. "Need and Recognition: A Theory of Emotions"), she worked out another point of view, which is a fundamental element of her philosophy and is the focus of several of her books has found.

In 1993 she acted as an expert witness in the Romer v Evans case, which concerned the restriction of homosexual rights against discrimination . In her statement, she claimed that the view that Plato's nomoi refer to disgust for homosexuality was based on a misinterpretation. With her testimony she exposed herself to considerable criticism, which in relation to a specific translation question and the dictionary on which it was based ranged up to accusations of manipulation and perjury. She responded to the allegations with the detailed article "Platonic Love and Colorado Law", to which she in turn received a reply from one of her opponents, Robert P. George .

In the following years several books appeared in quick succession in which she thematized philosophy as therapy and as the basis of education and upbringing:

  • In The Therapy of Desire ("The Therapy of Desire", 1994) she examines the possibility of the therapeutic function of philosophy on the basis of Stoic philosophy.
  • Poetic Justice ("Dichterische Gerechtigkeit", 1995) is based on her "Alexander Rosenthal Lectures" from 1991. In it Nussbaum developed the suggestion that public figures, especially judges, should use literature to broaden their horizons with regard to worlds of life, which are otherwise not accessible to them.
  • Love for Country? (“Liebe zum Land?”, 1996), the documentation of a debate about patriotism that Nussbaum had triggered, with 29 statements from intellectuals, in which she advocates the priority of multiculturalism over patriotism.
  • Cultivating Humanity ("Cultivating Humanity", 1997) is a study of educational concepts at various American universities and at the same time a plea for cosmopolitanism and a liberal education for multiculturalism. The book won the 1998 Ness Book Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities and received the Grawemeyer Award in Education in 2002 .

Move to Chicago

Walnut 2004

In 1995 Nussbaum received a position as professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago. The appointment was for the Law School and the Faculty of Theology (Divinity School) and the college of the university. In addition, she was an associate member in the Faculties of Philosophy and Classical Philology.

In 1996 she received the position of Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics as a member of the Faculties of Law, Philosophy and Theology. She is also associated with the Faculties of Classical Philology and, since 2003, of Political Sciences. She is a member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies , co-chairs the Human Rights Program and is the founder (2002) and coordinator of the Center for Comparative Constitutionalism at the University of Chicago.

Even after she finished working for the United Nations University at WIDER, Nussbaum dealt intensively with questions of development policy and undertook several study trips to India . As a result of this occupation, the book Sex & Social Justice was published in 1999 , in which she developed an independent liberal feminism and presented a more elaborated version of her empowerment approach as a contribution to the discussion of social justice. The book won the 2000 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Prize .

In 1999 she published a critical article on Judith Butler called "The Professor of Parody". For Butler, not only gender , but also the understanding of biological gender ( sex ) is discursively determined and primarily conditioned by power relations, norms and social constraints. In her book The Unease of the Sexes , Butler suggests working towards changes in consciousness in society through “ parodies ” and exaggerations of these power relations. Nussbaum ties in with this with the title of her essay. She accuses Butler of a philosophy of hopelessness, because this, along with Michel Foucault, asserts that reforms only lead to new power structures that are different but no better. Supported by their barely understandable language, Butler's philosophy causes a "quietism" in their readers by robbing people of all hopes and stifling discussions with their language. Nussbaum, on the other hand, advocates a feminist position that expressly integrates the idea of humanism : "We need a humanism that can guide public action again."

The book Women and Human Development from 2000 is also a discussion of the empowerment approach against the background of gender-specific inequality at the expense of women, which Nussbaum elaborates using various examples from India. A key condition of this inequality is therefore poverty.

Nussbaum's more recent books deal primarily with the meaning of emotions:

  • Upheavals of Thought ("Umbruch des Denkens", 2001) is the extensive elaboration of the thesis that there is no ethical theory without an adequate theory of emotions, with emotions as forms of attention and intense engagement making up an essential part of the cognitive apparatus.
  • Hiding from Humanity ("Hidden from Justice", 2004) is an investigation into the meaning of feelings of disgust and shame for legal practice. In doing so, she opposes the influence of public disgust on legal issues relating to prostitution or homosexuality. The book won the Association of American University Publishers Book Prize for Law in the year of publication .
Nussbaum with the Iranian regime critic Akbar Gandschi

Together with Amartya Sen, Nussbaum founded the “Human Development and Capability Association” in 2004. As the successor to the founding president Sen, Nussbaum was acting president of the organization from 2006 to 2008.

The 2006 book Frontiers of Justice is a renewed investigation of the empowerment approach, which now focuses on the position of people with impairments or disabilities, the contrast between rich and poor, and the position of animals. Nussbaum assigns the weaker in each case a right to care by human society.

The following writings address the question of the importance of religion and its role in society:

  • The Clash Within (“The Inner Conflict”, 2007) shows the harmful consequences of an intolerant religion using the example of the sometimes violent suppression of Muslims by Hindus in India. For Nussbaum, there is less danger from a clash of cultures than from the contrast that lies within each individual and is caused by convictions that are ultimately based on self-protecting aggressions.
  • Liberty of Conscience (“Freedom of Conscience”, 2008) describes the tradition of religious freedom in the United States and advocates tolerance and against religious prejudice.

The bond with the Jewish religion is shown in a Bat Mitzvah that Nussbaum celebrated on August 16, 2008 in Chicago.

Memberships and honors

Nussbaum has been a member of the American Philosophical Association since 1975 , where she was active on a variety of committees and was President of the Central Division from 1999 to 2000 . She has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1988. In 1995 she was admitted to the American Philosophical Society . It is also represented in a number of other professional organizations.

Nussbaum has been awarded over thirty honorary doctorates and comparable titles for her work. She held visiting professorships in Paris (1984), Oxford (1986–1987), Chicago (1992 and 1994), Stanford (1992), University of California (1993), Oslo (1994 and 1998), New Delhi (2004) and Harvard (2007). In 2013 she held the second Dagmar Westberg Endowed Professorship at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

In February 2009, Nussbaum received the A.SK Social Science Award, endowed with 100,000 euros, from the Berlin Science Center for Social Research (WZB) for her research on the conditions of human coexistence and social justice . She was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Social Sciences in 2012 and the Kyoto Prize in Philosophy in 2016.

In June 2012, as the recipient of the Albertus Magnus Professorship at the University of Cologne, she gave two lectures on the politics of fear and religious intolerance as well as a seminar entitled "Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice". Their work led to the book published in 2013 under the same name.

In 2017 Nussbaum received the Don M. Randel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In 2018, the Nicolas Berggruen Institute awarded her the Berggruen Prize, endowed with US $ 1 million.

Intuition

Nussbaum describes herself as an Aristotelian and places the question of the good life at the center of her work on practical philosophy. Originally a classical scholar , she draws heavily on the philosophy of Aristotle and the Stoa , which she contrasts with literature from Greek tragedy to the modern novel. She advocates the thesis that proper ethics must include the level of emotions and assign them their own cognitive value. Nussbaum has developed a committed point of view that includes liberal feminism , but above all advocates multiculturalism , global citizenship and international justice in political philosophy . She is known for the Capability Approach in development policy, which she developed with Amartya Sen. With her extensive work, Nussbaum has received several literary prizes and 56 academic degrees of honor, and she is considered "one of the most prominent philosophers of our time".

Evaluation and criticism

The political philosopher and journalist Thomas Gutschker sees in Nussbaum (as in Alasdair MacIntyre ) an effort to rediscover the Aristotelian ideal of the polis  - if not in concrete form, then as a normative point of reference that can be reached by consensus - in one's own present. This attitude falls short-circuit and suddenly on the ancient model, without sufficiently reflecting the difference between past and present.

Publications (selection)

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Books

Monographs

  • Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1997, ISBN 978-0-674-17949-3 ( review David Gordon, the Mises Review ; review (PDF; 136 kB) Martin Gunderson in Frontiers Journal; review ; review Nicolas C. Burbules in Harvard Educational Review, sees Nussbaum's book " very ambivalent " ; Google Books )
  • Plato's Republic : The Good Society and The Deformation of Desire (Bradley Lecture Series Publication), Library of Congress 1998, ISBN 978-0-8444-0951-1
  • Sex & Social Justice. Oxford University Press, New York / Oxford 1999, ISBN 978-0-19-511210-8 ( Review from a feminist perspective: Maria Russo, Rescuing the Feminist Book at Salon.com | Salon ; Review Alan Ryan, Cultural Perversions. New York Times of March 21, 1999 ; review ( memento of December 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ); review ; Google Books ).
    • only partly in German: construction of love, desire and care. Three philosophical essays , translated by Joachim Schulte, Reclam's Universal-Bibliothek 18189, Reclam, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-15-018189-5 ; contains three of the fifteen essays of the Engl. Originals: The feminist critique of liberalism ( The Feminist Criticism of Liberalism ), reification ( Reification ) and construction of love, desire and care ( Construction of Love, Desire, and Care ); Reviews of the German edition: Rolf Löchel, people are not coins. literaturkritik.de. No. 11, November 2002. - Fritjof Bönold, Norbert Walz, Martha C. Nussbaum, Construction of Love, Desire and Care (PDF file; 161 kB), Contradiction No. 40, 2003, pp. 127–130.
  • Women and Human Development. The capabilities approach. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 978-0-521-66086-0 ( review by Rosalind IJ Hackett ; review by Ellen Willis ; review by John Ambrosio ( Memento June 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ); Google Books )
  • Ethics and Political Philosophy. Lecture and colloquium in Münster 2000, ed. v. Angela Kallhoff, Lit, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-8258-4881-7
  • Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions. Cambridge University Press 2001, ISBN 978-0-521-53182-5 ( review ; review ; interview (PDF; 165 kB); Google Books )
  • Hiding from Humanity. Disgust, Shame, and the Law . Paperback edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2006, ISBN 978-0-691-12625-8 (first edition: 2004).
    • Reviews: Stefanie A. Lindquist: Hiding from Humanity . In: Law & Politics Book Review . tape 14 , no. 9 , September 2004, p. 708–710 ( bsos.umd.edu ( Memento of November 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )). - Howard A. Doughty: Hiding from Humanity . In: The Innovation Journal . tape 11 , no. 1 , June 2006 ( innovation.cc [PDF; 105 kB ]). - Peter H. Huang, Christopher J. Anderson: A Psychology of Emotional Legal Decision Making . In: Minnesota Law Review . tape 90 , (spring), 2006, p. 1045-1071 ( sss.ias.edu [PDF; 226 kB ]). - Paul Corcoran: The rhetoric of shame in the lachrymose country . In: Australian Review of Public Affairs . November 8, 2004 ( australianreview.net ).
  • Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (= The Tanner Lectures on Human Values. ) Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. u. a. 2006, ISBN 0-674-01917-2 .
  • Why Practice Needs Ethical Theory. Particularism, Principle, and Bad Behavior. In: Steven J. Burton (Ed.), The Path of the Law and Its Influence. Pp. 50-86, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-521-63006-1
    • German: Of the use of moral theory for life. translated by Joachim Schulte, with an interview by Klaus Taschwer with Martha Nussbaum, Liberal Aristotelianism. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85165-412-9
  • The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future . Paperback edition. Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-0-674-03059-6 (first edition: 2007).
    • Reviews: Pankaj Mishra: Impasse in India . In: The New York Review of Books . June 28, 2007 ( nybooks.com ).
  • Liberty of Conscience. In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality . Basic Books, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-465-05164-9 .
    • Reviews: Alexandra Kemmerer: Polygamy, aloof . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 160 , July 11, 2008, p. 37 ( faz.net ). - Emily Bazelon : Good Faith . In: The New York Times . March 23, 2008 ( nytimes.com ).
  • From Disgust to Humanity. Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law . Oxford University Press, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-530531-9 .
  • Not for Profit. Why Democracy Needs the Humanities . Princeton University Press, Princeton 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-14064-3 .
    • German: Not for profit: why democracy needs education. Translated by Ilse Utz, tibiaPress, Überlingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-935254-91-5
  • Creating Capabilities. The Human Development Approach . Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2011, ISBN 978-0-674-05054-9 .
    • German: create skills. New ways to improve human quality of life . Freiburg im Breisgau 2015, ISBN 978-3-495-48669-6
      • Reviews: Ingrid Robeyns: Martha Nussbaum's Creating Capabilities . In: Crooked Timber . August 29, 2011 ( crookedtimber.org ).
  • The New Religious Intolerance. Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age . Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2012, ISBN 978-0-674-06590-1 .
  • Political Emotions: Why Love Matters For Justice. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. u. a. 2013, ISBN 978-0-674-72465-5 .
  • Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice . Oxford University Press, New York City, USA 2017, ISBN 978-0-19-933587-9 .
    • German: anger and forgiveness: plea for a culture of serenity . Scientific book club, Darmstadt 2017, ISBN 978-3-534-26884-9 .
  • with Saul Levmore: Aging Thoughtfully: Conversations about Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regret . New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis. Simon and Schuster, New York City 2018.
    • Kingdom of Fear: Thoughts on the Current Political Crisis. , wbg Theiss, Darmstadt 2019. ISBN 978-3-8062-3875-4 .
  • The Cosmopolitan Tradition. A Noble but Flawed Ideal , Harvard University Press 2019.

Collections of own essays

In editing

  • (with Amelie Oksenberg Rorty) Essays on Aristotle's De Anima. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1992 ( Google Books ).
  • with Amartya Sen The Quality of Life. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1993.
  • with Jonathan Glover: Women, Culture, and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1995, ISBN 978-0-19-828964-7 ( Google Books ).

Individual articles in magazines and edited volumes, miscellaneous

  • Joshua Cohen (Ed.), For Love of Country? A New Democracy Forum on the Limits of Patriotism. Beacon Press 1996, ISBN 978-0-8070-4329-5 ; a collection of statements by 14 authors such as Appiah and Butler to Putnam, Sen and Taylor to Wallerstein and Walzer on Nussbaum's supposed rejection of patriotism
  • Nature, Function, and Capability: Aristotle on Political Distribution. In: Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Supplementary Volume 1988, pp. 145-184
    • German: The nature of man, his abilities and activities: Aristotle on the distributive task of the state. translated by Ilse Utz, In: Justice or the good life. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-518-11739-2
  • Aristotelian Social Democracy. In: RB Douglas, G. Mara and H. Richardson (eds.), Liberalism and the Good. Routledge, New York 1990
    • German: Aristotelian social democracy. In: Justice or the good life. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1998
  • Non-Relative Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach. In: Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen, The Quality of Life. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1993
    • German: Non-relative virtues: An Aristotelian approach. translated by Ilse Utz, In: Justice or the good life. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998
  • Women's feelings and abilities. Translation (Ilse Utz) of an unpublished lecture, 1993, In: Justice or the good life. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1998
  • Human skills, feminine people. Translation (Ilse Utz) of an unpublished lecture, 1993, In: Justice or the good life. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998
  • Work on the culture of reason . In: Joachim Schulte, Uwe Justus Wenzel (Ed.): What is a “philosophical problem”? trans. from the English by Joachim Schulte, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl., Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-596-14931-2

literature

  • Cora Diamond : Martha Nussbaum's Need for Novells . In: Ludwig Nagl, Hugh J. Silverman: Textuality of Philosophy . In: Philosophy and Literature . Oldenbourg, 1994, ISBN 3-486-55990-7 , pp. 68-93 (covers Love's Knowledge)
  • Josef Fruchl: Insensitive tragedy and tragic insensitivity. Martha Nussbaum's (an) aesthetic ethics . In: Ludwig Nagl, Hugh J. Silverman: Textuality of Philosophy . In: Philosophy and Literature . Oldenbourg, 1994, ISBN 3-486-55990-7 , pp. 94-112. (Dealing with The Fragility of Goodness)
  • Adam Galamaga: Philosophy of Human Rights by Martha C. Nussbaum: An Introduction to the Capabilities Approach . Tectum, Marburg 2014, ISBN 3-8288-3372-1 .
  • Thomas Gutschker: Aristotelian Discourses: Aristotle in the Political Philosophy of the 20th Century . Stuttgart: Metzler, 2002, ISBN 3-476-01905-5 , Chapter IV.2
  • Angela Kallhoff (Ed.): Martha C. Nussbaum. Ethics and political philosophy . LIT, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-8258-4881-7 .
  • Manuel Knoll: Aristocratic or Democratic Justice? The political philosophy of Aristotle and Martha Nussbaum's egalitarian reception . Wilhelm Fink, Munich / Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4858-3
  • Axel B. Kunze: Emancipatory essentialism. The theory of justice by the American philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum . Vwf, 2005, ISBN 3-89700-380-5 .
  • Walter Reese-Schäfer : Border gods of morality. The more recent European-American discourse on political ethics . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-518-28882-2
  • Martina Schmidhuber: Why is poverty female ?: Philosophical reflections based on the skills approach according to Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum . VDM 2009, ISBN 978-3-639-11620-5
  • Grit Straßenberger: About the narrative in political theory . Academy, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-05-004145-5 .
  • Grit Straßenberger: The Political Theory of New Aristotelianism: Martha Nussbaum . In: Andre Brodocz, Gary S. Schaal (eds.): Political Theories of the Present 2nd edition UTB (Budrich), Opladen 2006, ISBN 3-8252-2219-5 .
  • Dieter Sturma : Universalism and New Aristotelianism. Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum on ethics and social justice . In: Wolfgang Kersting (Hrsg.): Political Philosophy of the Social State . Velbrück, Weilerswist 2000, ISBN 3-934730-14-0 , pp. 257-292.
  • Anthonia Visser: Dear declaration: Martha Nussbaum reads Samuel Beckett's Molloy. In: Wolfgang Emmerich, Heinz-Peter Preusser, Matthias Wilde (eds.): Cultural philosophers as readers: portraits of literary readings . Wallstein, 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0011-3 .

Web links

Commons : Martha Nussbaum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Interview: Background , Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, 2006
  2. ^ A b Robert Boynton: Who Needs Philosophy ?: A profile of Martha Nussbaum
  3. ^ Martha Nussbaum: Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education . Cambridge / MA 1997, p. 6f.
  4. ^ Martha Nussbaum: The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 1986, Second edition 2001, p. 424, note 13.
  5. ↑ Scott McLemee: What Makes Martha Nussbaum Run?
  6. ↑ Not from bread alone . In: The time . No. 22, 2009.
  7. ^ Martha Nussbaum: Aristotelian Social Democracy . In: R. Bruce Douglas, Gerald R. Mara, Henry S. Richardson (Eds.): Liberalism and the Good . New York / London 1990, pp. 203-252.
  8. ↑ Romer v. Evans in the English language Wikipedia
  9. ^ The Stand : Expert Witnesses and Ancient Mysteries in a Colorado Courtroom. and Robert Boynton: Who Needs Philosophy ?: A profile of Martha Nussbaum .
  10. ^ Martha C. Nussbaum: Platonic Love and Colorado Law: The Relevance of Ancient Greek Norms to Modern Sexual Controversies . In: Virginia Law Review. vol. 80, No. 7 (October 1994), pp. 1515-1651.
  11. ^ Robert P. George: "Shameless Acts" Revisited: Some Questions for Martha Nussbaum . In: Academic Questions 9 (Winter 1995-96), pp. 24-42.
  12. ↑ Martha Nussbaum: The Professor of Parody (PDF; 54 kB).
  13. ↑ Interview with the Focus , issue 29 of July 17, 2000, p. 85.
  14. ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Creating-Capabilities-Human-Development-Approach/dp/0674050541
  15. ↑ Bernhard Ott: A life for a just society. In: Der Bund of December 24, 2014, p. 2 f.
  16. ^ Dagmar Westberg Endowed Professorship , website of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
  17. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160706003226/http://www.kyotoprize.org/en/laureates/latest
  18. ↑ Communication from the University of Cologne: "Martha Nussbaum becomes Albertus Magnus Professor 2012" ; also “Political Emotions. Part II “ ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 410 kB).
  19. ^ Martha Nussbaum to be Honored by the American Academy. In: amacad.org. January 30, 2018, accessed February 5, 2018 .
  20. ^ For example, the Austrian Academy of Sciences in a lecture announcement ( Memento from February 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  21. ↑ Thomas Gutschker: Aristotle in the 20th century. In: Barbara Zehnpfennig (Ed.): The "Politics" of Aristotle. Nomos: Baden-Baden 2012, ISBN 978-3-8329-4106-2 , p. 276.
personal data
SURNAME Walnut, Martha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walnut, Martha Craven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher and professor of law and ethics
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , New York , United States