Martha C. Nussbaum Journalist Profile

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Reports from the Slaughterhouse | Martha C. Nussbaum

Nov 28, 2024 | nybooks.com | Martha C. Nussbaum

Americans love inexpensive meat. Many think it would be a terrible fate to be deprived of cheap diner bacon and drive-through burgers. For over a century the meat industry has catered to and cultivated this taste, mass-producing beef, pork, and chicken in ways that permit efficiencies of scale—but necessitate inhumane treatment of the animals. These creatures are warehoused like objects and herded along fear-ridden assembly lines to certain death.
The Tenderness of Silent Minds: Benjamin Britten and his War Requiem

Oct 24, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Martha C. Nussbaum

The human body is the primary instrument of war, yet those waging war often confront soldiers’ bodies in a detached or merely intellectual way. In The Tenderness of Silent Minds, Martha C. Nussbaum, a leading thinker on emotion, morality, and justice, conducts a pioneering study of Benjamin Britten’s musical representations of the body amidst the brutality of war, and their ability to transform consciousness by evoking potent, non-personal emotions.
Opinion | The Humanities Are Alive and Well in Utah

Jan 17, 2024 | chronicle.com | Martha C. Nussbaum

I did not look forward to my visit to Utah Valley University in the fall of 2023. Facing the start of a new quarter of teaching, I felt that the trip would probably bring me little exhilaration. Bad news about cuts to the humanities kept rolling in from all sides, most recently from West Virginia University, which has cut more than 30 degree programs entirely, most in the humanities and liberal arts.
Equilibrio: escepticismo e inmersión en la deliberación política

Jan 9, 2024 | dialnet.unirioja.es | Martha C. Nussbaum |Maria Begoña |Martínez Pagán

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Robert Baird: The humanities - an apology

Dec 14, 2023 | wacotrib.com | Martha C. Nussbaum

When my granddaughter, Lia, was a baby, I would take her for an evening buggy stroll. Just the two of us: granddaddy and granddaughter time together. As we walked along and alone, I would often look down at that sweet face and say repeatedly: “OK, Lia. Listen up. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. They are important: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. Don’t forget: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.” Sometimes I would even create a little melody with which I would sing “Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.” I know.
Contra el ‘sadoturismo’ con animales y la idea romántica de la naturaleza “salvaje”

Oct 24, 2023 | elpais.com | Martha C. Nussbaum
A Philosophy of Our Fellow Creatures | Martha C. Nussbaum

Oct 14, 2023 | nybooks.com | Lauren Kane |Martha C. Nussbaum

“Activist” might not be the first word that comes to mind to describe Martha Nussbaum, whose work as a philosopher has made her a public figure for more than three decades. But her first piece for this magazine, published in 1985, was titled “Plato and Affirmative Action.” Early in the next piece on the education of women, she writes, “Philosophers have frequently discussed education.
Let them eat oysters

Sep 25, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Martha C. Nussbaum |Lorna Finlayson |Peter Singer

Animals are in. As mass extinction looms, nature documentaries have become big business. The last six years have seen a succession of David Attenborough hits: Blue Planet II, Dynasties and Dynasties II, The Green Planet and Frozen Planet II on the BBC; and on Netflix, Our Planet, A Life on Our Planet and Planet Earth II. Attenborough’s most recent series, Wild Isles, was watched by more than ten million people in the first month of its release.
BOOK REVIEW: 'Justice for Animals'

Jul 17, 2023 | fltimes.com | Joel Freedman |Martha C. Nussbaum

In her most recent book, “Justice For Animals: Our Collective Responsibility,” Martha C. Nussbaum, a philosopher and professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago, looks at the worldwide, age-old, problem of cruelty to animals by humans, and why humans have a collective responsibility to address these issues. Nussbaum tells the story of Virginia, a sensitive female elephant in Kenya with large, amber eyes and who, when she hears music she likes, stands very still while her lids droop.
"The Ratline" By Philippe Sands

Jun 18, 2023 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Philippe Sands |David Michaels |Melissa Colasanti |Martha C. Nussbaum

Note: This is an encore episode of Reader's Corner. The episode originally aired in August 2021. Otto von Wächter was an Austrian lawyer, husband, father, and a senior SS officer. Creator and overseer of the Krakow ghetto, indicted after as a war criminal for the mass murder of more than 100,000 Poles, Wächter was hunted for three years following WWII.