Background
Nussbaum, Martha Craven was born on May 6, 1947 in New York City. Daughter of George and Betty (Warren) Craven.
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Sex and Social Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum (2000-08-24)
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Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education by Martha C. Nussbaum (1998-10-01)
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The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics (Martin Classical Lectures) by Nussbaum, Martha C.(July 26, 2009) Paperback
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The Therapy of Desire by Martha C. Nussbaum (1996-02-16)
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The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy by Martha C. Nussbaum (2001-01-15)
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The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics (Martin Classical Lectures)
( The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosop...)
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 today. This edition features a new introduction by Nussbaum, in which she revisits the themes of this now classic work.
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El Cultivo De La Humanidad / Cultivating Humanity: Una defensa clasica de la reforma en la educacion liberal/A Classical Defense of Reform In Liberal ... Basica / Basic Paidos) (Spanish Edition)
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The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
(This book is a study of ancient views about "moral luck."...)
This book is a study of ancient views about "moral luck." It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their lives. The Greeks made a profound contribution to these questions, yet neither the problems nor the Greek views of them have received the attention they deserve. This updated edition contains a new preface.
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Sex and Social Justice
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The Therapy of Desire
( The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosop...)
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.
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Soundings An Interdisciplinary Journal. Vol. LXXII, No. 4, Winter 1989. A Symposium on The Fragility of Goodness
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Cultivating Humanity (text only) by M. C. Nussbaum
(Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Li...)
Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education PaperbackMartha C. Nussbaum (Author)
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For Love of Country?
(After the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World...)
After the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, American flags appeared everywhere. Is patriotism a good response at a time of national crisis? What does it mean for us to think of ourselves as a nation first? With our connections to the world growing stronger and more vital than ever, Martha C. Nussbaum argues that we should distrust conventional patriotism as parochial and instead see ourselves first of all as "citizens of the world." Sixteen prominent writers and thinkers respond, including Benjamin R. Barber, Sissela Bok, Nathan Glazer, Robert Pinsky, Elaine Scarry, Amartya Sen, and Michael Walzer. NEW DEMOCRACY FORUM A series of short paperback originals exploring creative solutions to our most urgent national concerns. The series editors (for Boston Review), Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, aim to foster politically engaged, intellectually honest, and morally serious debate about fundamental issues-both on and off the agenda of conventional politics.
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Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education by Nussbaum Martha C. (1997-09-28) Hardcover
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Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
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Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life (Alexander Rosenthal Lectures)
(In Poetic Justice, one of our most prominent philosophers...)
In Poetic Justice, one of our most prominent philosophers explores how the literary imagination is an essential ingredient of just public discourse and a democratic society.
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Martha Craven Nussbaum
Edit Profilephilosophy and classics educator
Martha Craven Nussbaum, American Philosophy and classics educator. Society Fellows Harvard University junior fellow, 1972-1975, Humanities fellow Princeton University, 1977-1978, Guggenheim Foundation fellow, 1983, National Institutes of Health fellow, visiting fellow All Souls College, Oxford, England, 1986-1987; recipient Brandeis Creative Arts award, 1990, Spielvogel-Diamondstein award, 1991; Gifford lecturer U. Edinburgh, 1993.
Education
Bachelor, New York University, 1969; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1975; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Kalamazoo College, 1988; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Grinnell College, 1993.
Career
Assistant professor philosophy and classics, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1975-1980; associate professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1980-1983; visiting professor philosophy, Greek and Latin, Wellesley (Massachusetts) College, 1983-1984; associate professor philosophy and classics, Brown U., Providence, Rhode Island, 1984-1985; professor philosophy, classics and comparative literature, Brown U., Providence, Rhode Island, 1985-1987; David Benedict professor philosophy, classics and comparative literature, Brown U., Providence, Rhode Island, 1987-1989; professor, Brown U., Providence, Rhode Island, 1989-1995; professor of law and ethics, University of Chicago, 1995-1996; Ernst Freund professor of law and ethics Law School/Divinity School, University of Chicago, since 1996; associate member classics Department, University Chicago, since 1996. Research advisor World Institute Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland, 1986-1993. Visiting professor law University of Chicago, 1994.
Achievements
Works
book
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The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics (Martin Classical Lectures)
( The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosop...)
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The Therapy of Desire
( The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosop...)
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Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life (Alexander Rosenthal Lectures)
(In Poetic Justice, one of our most prominent philosophers...)
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For Love of Country?
(After the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World...)
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Cultivating Humanity (text only) by M. C. Nussbaum
(Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Li...)
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The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
(This book is a study of ancient views about "moral luck."...)
- The fragility of goodness : luck and ethics in Greek tragedy and philosophy
- Sex and Social Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum (2000-08-24)
- Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education by Martha C. Nussbaum (1998-10-01)
- The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics (Martin Classical Lectures) by Nussbaum, Martha C.(July 26, 2009) Paperback
- The Therapy of Desire by Martha C. Nussbaum (1996-02-16)
- The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy by Martha C. Nussbaum (2001-01-15)
- El Cultivo De La Humanidad / Cultivating Humanity: Una defensa clasica de la reforma en la educacion liberal/A Classical Defense of Reform In Liberal ... Basica / Basic Paidos) (Spanish Edition)
- Sex and Social Justice
- Soundings An Interdisciplinary Journal. Vol. LXXII, No. 4, Winter 1989. A Symposium on The Fragility of Goodness
- Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education by Nussbaum Martha C. (1997-09-28) Hardcover
- Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
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The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics (Martin Classical Lectures)
Membership
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences (membership committee 1991-1993, county 1992-1996), American Philosophical Society. Member American Philosophical Association (Executive Committee Eastern division 1985-1987, chair committee international cooperative, ex-officio member of national board 1989-1992, chair commission on status of women 1994-1997), American Philological Association, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association.
Connections
Married Alan Jeffrey Nussbaum, August, 1969 (divorced 1987). 1 child, Rachel Emily.
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American
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Society Fellows Harvard University junior fellow, 1972-1975, Humanities fellow Princeton University, 1977-1978, Guggenheim Foundation fellow, 1983, National Institutes of Health fellow, visiting fellow All Souls College, Oxford, England, 1986-1987. Recipient Brandeis Creative Arts award, 1990, Spielvogel-Diamondstein award, 1991. Gifford lecturer U. Edinburgh, 1993.Society Fellows Harvard University junior fellow, 1972-1975, Humanities fellow Princeton University, 1977-1978, Guggenheim Foundation fellow, 1983, National Institutes of Health fellow, visiting fellow All Souls College, Oxford, England, 1986-1987. Recipient Brandeis Creative Arts award, 1990, Spielvogel-Diamondstein award, 1991. Gifford lecturer U. Edinburgh, 1993.