UID:
almafu_9960741954502883
Umfang:
1 online resource (440 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-991268-8
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0-19-026761-5
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1-283-42718-4
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9786613427182
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0-19-977798-5
Inhalt:
This volume collects the notable published book reviews of Martha C. Nussbaum is 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,
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Complete List of Reviews to Date; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Women's Lot; CHAPTER TWO: Sex in the Head; CHAPTER THREE: Undemocratic Vistas; CHAPTER FOUR: Recoiling from Reason; CHAPTER FIVE: The Bondage and Freedom of Eros; CHAPTER SIX: Our Pasts, Ourselves; CHAPTER SEVEN: The Chill of Virtue; CHAPTER EIGHT: Venus in Robes; CHAPTER NINE: Justice for Women!; CHAPTER TEN: Divided We Stand; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Looking Good, Being Good; CHAPTER TWELVE: Feminists and Philosophy; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Unlocal Hero; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Foul Play
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN: If Oxfam Ran the WorldCHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Professor of Parody; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Experiments in Living; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Review; CHAPTER NINETEEN: Disabled Lives: Who Cares?; CHAPTER TWENTY: When She Was Good; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Dr. True Self; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: For Once Clear to See; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: The Founder; CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Epistemology of the Closet; CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: The Prohibition Era; CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Man Overboard; CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Legal Weapon; CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Review; CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Texts for Torturers
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CHAPTER THIRTY: Stages of ThoughtCHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: The Passion Fashion; CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: Becky, Tess, and Moll; CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: Examined Life (Inheriting Socrates); CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: Representative Woman; CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: American Civil War; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-19-977785-3
Sprache:
Englisch
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