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Martha C. Nussbaum

Martha C. Nussbaum teaches philosophy and law at the University of Chicago. Her most recent book is Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America’s Tradition of Religious Equality.

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Philosophy & Religion

The Weakness of the Furies

Victim anger can be useful to the political struggle, but it can also become excessive and obsessive, deforming the self.

Martha C. Nussbaum

Politics

Monarchy of Fear

Watch Martha C. Nussbaum discuss her latest book and where to go next in our moment of political crisis.

Boston Review, Martha C. Nussbaum

Forum Response

Martha Nussbaum responds

The stage can bring us closer to real democracy.

Martha C. Nussbaum

Forum

Hamilton's Choice

Hamilton presents us with the Choice of Hercules retold as a choice between two kinds of political life.

Martha C. Nussbaum

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

Tell Narendra Modi: Human Development is More than GDP

This updated piece was originally published by the Hindu Centre for Politics and Public

Martha C. Nussbaum

Global Justice, Philosophy & Religion

Land of My Dreams

Islamic liberalism under fire in India.

Martha C. Nussbaum

Arts in Society, Law & Justice

The Mourner's Hope

Martha Nussbaum’s bat mitzvah talk.

Martha C. Nussbaum

Global Justice, Politics

Body of the Nation

Why women were mutliated in Gujarat.

Martha C. Nussbaum

Books & Ideas

Tragedy and Justice

Bernard Williams died on June 10, 2003, at the age of 73, while on holiday with his family in Rome

Martha C. Nussbaum

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

Is Privacy Bad for Women?

What the Indian constitutional tradition can teach about sex equality.

Martha C. Nussbaum

Philosophy & Religion

Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism

The life of the cosmopolitan, who puts right before country, and universal reason before the symbols of national belonging, need not be boring, flat, or lacking in love.

Martha C. Nussbaum

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