Martha Nussbaum

Martha Nussbaum (born May 6, 1947) is a philosopher, with a particular interest in ancient philosophy and law. She was born in New York, NY, the daughter of George (an attorney) and Betty (a homemaker; maiden name, Warren) Craven. She married Alan Jeffrey Nussbaum, August, 1969 (divorced, November, 1987), with whom she had one child, Rachel Emily.

Publications

• Aristotle's De Motu Animalium (1978)
• The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (1986)
• Love's Knowledge (1990)
• The Therapy of Desire (1994)
• Poetic Justice (1996)
• For Love of Country (1996)
• Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education (1997)
• Sex and Social Justice (1998)
• Women and Human Development (2000)
• Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (2001)
• Hiding From Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law (2004)

External link

• http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/nussbaum/