Philosophical interventions
Subtitle: book reviews, 1986-2011
By: Martha Nussbaum
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9780199777853
Subjects: Reviews; Books and reading; Books
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.