Télécharger le livre :  The Tenderness of Silent Minds

The human body is the primary instrument of war, yet those waging war often confront soldiers' bodies in a detached or merely intellectual way. InThe Tenderness of Silent Minds, Martha C. Nussbaum, a leading thinker on emotion, morality, and justice, conducts a...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-10-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Cannons and Codes

It can be said that western literature begins with a war story, the Iliad; and that this is true too of many non-Western literary traditions, such as the Mahabharata. And yet, though a profoundly human subject, war often appears to be by definition outside the realm of...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-03-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Power, Prose, and Purse

From Anthony Trollop to Sinclair Lewis, and from Jane Austen to James Joyce and John Steinbeck, many important novels touch on fundamental questions about the role of money in human affairs. These questions are explored in this volume through the lens of law and...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-05-15

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Télécharger le livre :  The Empire of Disgust

All known societies exclude one or more minority groups, frequently employing a rhetoric of disgust to justify stigmatization. For instance, in European anti-Semitism, Jews were considered hyper-physical and crafty; some upper-caste Hindus find the lower castes dirty...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-08-16

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Télécharger le livre :  Aging Thoughtfully

We all age differently, but we can learn from shared experiences and insights. The conversations, or paired essays, in Aging Thoughtfully combine a philosopher's approach with a lawyer-economist's. Here are ideas about when to retire, how to refashion social security...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2017-10-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Fatal Fictions

Writers of fiction have always confronted topics of crime and punishment. This age-old fascination with crime on the part of both authors and readers is not surprising, given that criminal justice touches on so many political and psychological themes essential to...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-11-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Anger and Forgiveness

Anger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care sufficiently for justice without anger at injustice. Many believe that it is impossible for individuals to vindicate their own self-respect or to move beyond an injury without...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-04-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Pluralism and Democracy in India

Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world's most populous democracy survive repeated assaults on its pluralistic values? India's stunning linguistic, cultural, and...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2015-02-09

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Télécharger le livre :  American Guy

American Guy examinesAmerican norms of masculinity and their role in the law, bringing a range of methodological and disciplinary perspectives to the intersection ofAmerican gender, legal, and literary issues. The collection opens with a set of papers investigating...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-08-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Subversion and Sympathy

This interdisciplinary volume of contributed essays focuses on issues of gender in the British novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly Hardy and Trollope. Approaching the topic from a variety of backgrounds, the contributors reinvigorate the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2012-12-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophical Interventions

This volume collects the notable published book reviews of Martha C. Nussbaum, 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....
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2011-08-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Animal Rights

Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum bring together an all-star cast of contributors to explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Addressing ethical questions about ownership, protection against...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2004-04-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Sex and Social Justice

What does it mean to respect the dignity of a human being?What sort of support do human capacities demand from the world, and how should we think about this support when we encounter differences of gender or sexuality? How should we think about each other across...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2000-08-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Sex, Preference, and Family

From Dan Quayle's attack on TV's Murphy Brown for giving birth out of wedlock, to the referendum recently passed in Colorado that forbid local communities from enacting non-discrimination laws for sexual orientation, the public furor over issues of same-sex marriages,...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1998-06-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Love's Knowledge

This volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of them previously inaccessible to non-specialist readers, deal with such fundamental issues as the relationship...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1992-04-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Essays on Aristotle's De Anima

Aristotle's philosophy of mind has recently attracted renewed attention and respect from philosophers. This volume brings together outstanding new essays on De Anima by a distinguished international group of contributors including, in this paperback efdition, a new...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1992-03-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Love's Knowledge

This volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of them previously inaccessible to non-specialist readers, deal with such fundamental issues as the relationship...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1990-11-15

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