Martha Nussbaum
Author of Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (The Public Square)
About the Author
Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, appointed in the Philosophy Department and the Law School of the University of Chicago. She gave the 2017 Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities and won the 2016 Kyoto Prize in Arts show more and Philosophy, which is regarded as the most prestigious award available in fields not eligible for a Nobel. Most recently, she was awarded the 2018 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture. She has written more than twenty-two books. show less
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Works by Martha Nussbaum
The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome (2002) — Editor — 45 copies
Language and Logos: Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy Presented to G. E. L. Owen (1982) — Editor — 11 copies
Plato's Republic: The Good Society and the Deformation of Desire (Bradley Lecture Series Publication) (1998) 8 copies
Confronting Torture: Essays on the Ethics, Legality, History, and Psychology of Torture Today (2018) — Editor — 3 copies
The feminist critique of liberalism 3 copies
La nuova intolleranza. Superare la paura dell'Islam e vivere in una società più libera (2012) 2 copies
Arastu 1 copy
Global inequalities 1 copy
“The Narrative Imagination” 1 copy
Poetics of Therapy 1 copy
La Speranza degli afflitti: Il lutto e i fondamenti della giustizia. A cura di Paolo Costa (Italian Edition) (2017) 1 copy
Kosmopolitismus. Revision eines Ideals. Philosophischer Essay. Die Geschichte der Menschenwürde von der Antike bis… (2020) 1 copy
Talking it through 1 copy
Extending Political Liberalism : A Selection from Rawls's Political Liberalism, edited by Thom Brooks and Martha C.… (2015) 1 copy
On nineteen eighty-four Orwell and our future — Editor — 1 copy
Associated Works
A World of Ideas : Conversations With Thoughtful Men and Women About American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our… (1989) — Interviewee — 550 copies
Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity (1999) — Foreword, some editions — 151 copies
Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two (2002) — Contributor — 44 copies
World, Mind, and Ethics: Essays on the Ethical Philosophy of Bernard Williams (1995) — Contributor — 19 copies
Ethics of Consumption: The Good Life, Justice, and Global Stewardship (Philosophy and the Global Context) (1997) — Contributor — 17 copies
The Emotions in Hellenistic Philosophy (The New Synthese Historical Library) (1998) — Contributor — 9 copies
Hope, Joy, and Affection in the Classical World (Emotions of the Past) (2016) — Contributor — 5 copies
Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World: Essays in Honour of Miriam Griffin (2002) — Contributor — 3 copies
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- Canonical name
- Nussbaum, Martha
- Legal name
- Nussbaum, Martha Craven
- Other names
- Nussbaum, Martha C.
- Birthdate
- 1947-05-06
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Education
- Harvard University (MA ∙ 1972 ∙ Ph.D ∙ 1975)
New York University (BA ∙ 1969)
Wellesley College
Baldwin School - Occupations
- Professor
Philosopher - Relationships
- Rorty, Amelie (co-author)
- Organizations
- University of Chicago (Professor of Law and Ethics)
Brown University
Harvard University
American Philosophical Association Central Division (President, 1999-2000) - Awards and honors
- American Philosophical Society (1996)
Corresponding Fellow, British Academy (2008)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988)
Prince of Asturias Prize (2012 ∙ Social Sciences)
Academy of Finland (2000)
Sidney Hook Memorial Award (2012) (show all 23)
Albertus-Magnus professorate (2012)
Balzan Prize (2022)
Order of Lincoln (2022)
Holberg Prize (2021)
Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture (2018)
Don M. Randel Award (2017)
Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy (2016)
Inamori Ethics Prize (2015)
Premio Nonino (2015)
Harvard Centennial Medal (2010)
Henry M. Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence (2009)
Barnard College Medal (2003)
Grawemeyer Award (2002)
North American Society for Social Philosophy (2000)
Ness Book Award (1998)
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (1991)
Brandeis Creative Arts Award in Non-Fiction (1990) - Short biography
- Martha Nussbaum, née Craven, was born in New York City. Her parents were a wealthy lawyer and an interior designer-homemaker. She attended the Baldwin School and studied theatre and classics at New York University, earning her BA in 1969. She received an MA and a PhD in philosophy from Harvard University. In 1975, she married Alan Nussbaum, with whom she had a daughter, and converted to Judaism. She became the first woman to hold the Junior Fellowship at Harvard, where she taught philosophy and classics in the 1970s and early 1980s, until being denied tenure by the Classics Department in 1982. She then moved on to teach at Brown University and the University of Oxford. She became a leading figure in moral philosophy with the publication of her second book, The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (1986). Her other major works include Sex and Social Justice (1998), Frontiers of Justice (2006), and Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice (2013). She has also edited 15 other books, and participated in many academic debates with figures such as John Rawls, Richard Posner, and Susan Moller Okin. In 2008, she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Professor Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, appointed in the Law School and Philosophy Department, and an Associate in the Classics Department, the Divinity School, and the Political Science Department, at the University of Chicago.
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