Martha Nussbaum
American philosopher and legal scholar at the University of Chicago, known for the capabilities approach (with Amartya Sen) and influential work on ethics, emotions, feminism, and classical philosophy; author of The Fragility of Goodness and Women and Human Development; recipient of the Kyoto Prize and the Berggruen Prize.
Books
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1. Love’s Knowledge
Essays on Philosophy and Literature
A collection of philosophical essays arguing that literature is indispensable to ethical understanding, showing how narrative form, style, and emotion cultivate practical wisdom. Drawing on Greek philosophy and close readings of novelists such as Henry James and Proust, it explores how love and other emotions shape moral perception, judgment, and responsiveness to particular lives. Critiquing overly abstract moral theory, it defends ethical criticism of literature and presents a humanistic vision in which novels function as a form of moral inquiry that trains the reader’s imagination and sense of responsibility.
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