Martha C. Nussbaum

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1.		Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (The Tanner Lectures on Human Values) from Belknap Press Price: $17.05 Customer Review: Martha Nussbaum has delivered another thought-provoking book, this time applying her "capabilities" approach to questions on disability, national identity, and obligations to non-humans. As always, her writing is clear and forceful, and her insights are provocative, if not always completely... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		The Bacchae of Euripides: A New Version from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $13.50 Customer Review: While I haven't read much Greek tragedy, and this is my first Euripides play, the Bacchae is the most aweful I've yet to read. The fury of a god spurned by his family and city had me entranced in awe. I still can't quite understand it. I just had to be still and let its terrible beauty wash over me... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions from Cambridge University Press Price: $18.59 Customer Review: In the past few centuries or so of Philosophy, except for Hume's dictum 'Reason ought to be the slave of the passions', Philosophers have generally tried to expunge the emotions and the subjective as much as possible from their explorations of questions such as the nature of the world, what is good... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		For Love of Country? from Beacon Press Price: $14.40 Customer Review: The book consists of an essay that promotes transnational identity over "patriotism". The essay is followed by a series of responses. The problem with the original essay and the responses both is that the entire debate is a childish affair. A proper answer to the question raised would be that... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education from Harvard University Press Price: $19.35 Customer Review: Many of the claims made in this book about Brigham Young University are false. For example, the author states on pg. 284 that "Universitywide requirements are two: religious education and physical education." This is utterly false. Students are required to take a physical science course, a biology... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $15.25 Customer Review: MY RATING SYSTEM: * - if you have to chose between torture and reading this book, then you might want to consider reading the book - although it depends on just how severe the torture would be. ** - if you've lost your job and have quite a bit of free time on your hands, and don't have... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.		Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? from Princeton University Press Price: $17.95 Customer Review: "Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?" consists of Okin's initial essay addressing that question, followed by a collection of essays commenting on her thoughts, followed by another essay by Okin in defense of her thesis. I admittedly was slightly disappointed the first time I read Okin's initial... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		Women and Human Development from Cambridge University Press Price: $25.19 Customer Review: Nussbaum's book is excellent reading for those with little background in philosophy or economics. She explains her important ideas about the goals of development very clearly. The point of development is to permit people to achieve a fully human functioning. What she writes might strike many readers... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.		Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $34.94 Customer Review: A collection of essays all of which present us with possibilities -- stories as moral teachers. We all learn from, care about, and revel in the stories that we read. Nussbaum takes seriously our ability to approach fiction with care and convincingly argues that we can extend this mode of being as... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		The Black Prince (Penguin Classics) from Penguin Classics Price: $10.88 Customer Review: One of the best books by one of the best novelists of the 20th century. The story of the heinously bitter and unreliable Bradley Pearson is rich with complexity of character and situation. Between the bitterness and the self-justification, answers to the questions about "what really happened" become... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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