Introduction
1. "Women's Lot, " review of Jane Roland Martin, Reclaiming a
Conversation: The Ideal of the Educated Woman, The New York Review
of Books, January 30, 1986.
2. "Sex in the Head," review of Roger Scruton, Sexual Desire: A
Moral Philosophy of the Erotic, The New York Review of Books,
December 18, 1986.
3. "Undemocratic Vistas," review of Allan Bloom, The Closing of the
American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and
Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students, The New York Review of
Books, November 5, 1987.
4. "Recoiling from Reason," review of Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose
Justice? Which Rationality,The New York Review of Books, December
7, 1989.
5. "The Bondage and Freedom of Eros," Review of David Halperin, One
Hundred Years of Homosexuality and Other Essays on Greek Love and
John J. Winkler, The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex
and Gender in Greece, The Times Literary Supplement, June 1990.
6. "Our Pasts, Ourselves," review of Charles Taylor, Sources of the
Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, The New Republic, April 9,
1990.
7. "The Chill of Virtue," review of Gregory Vlastos, Socrates,
Ironist and Moral Philosopher, The New Republic, September
15,1991.
8. "Venus in Robes," review of Richard Posner, Sex and Reason, The
New Republic, April 20, 1992.
9. "Justice for Women!", review of Susan Moller Okin, Justice,
Gender, and the Family, The New York Review of Books, October 8,
1992.
10. "Divided We Stand," review of William Bennett, The Book of
Virtues, The New Republic, December 1993.
11. "Looking Good, Being Good," review of Anne Hollander, Sex and
Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress (and two other books), The New
Republic, January 2, 1995.
12. "Feminists and Philosophy," review of Louise B. Antony and
Charlotte Witt, eds., A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on
Reason and Objectivity, The New York Review of Books, October 20,
1994. Letters and Reply, April 6, 1995.
13. "Unlocal Hero," review of Kristen Renwick Monroe, The Heart of
Altruism: Perceptions of a Common Humanity and Tzvetan Todorov,
Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps, The New
Republic, October 28, 1996.
14. "Foul Play," review of William Ian Miller, The Anatomy of
Disgust, The New Republic, November 17, 1997.
15. "If Oxfam Ran the World," review of Peter Unger, Living High
and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence, The London Review of
Books, September 4, 1997. Letters and Reply, October 2, 1997.
16. "The Professor of Parody," review of four books by Judith
Butler, The New Republic February 22, 1999. Letters and Reply,
April 19, 1999.
17. "Experiments in Living," review of Michael Warner, The Trouble
With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life, The New
Republic, January 3, 2000.
18. Review of Allen Buchanan, Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels, and
Daniel Wikler, From Chance to Choice; Genetics and Justice, The New
Republic, December 4, 2000.
19. "Disabled Lives: Who Cares?", review of Eva Feder Kittay,
Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency; Michael
Bérubé, Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional
Child; and Joan Williams, Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work
Conflict and What to Do About It. The New York Review of Books
January 11, 2001.
20. "When She Was Good," review of Peter J. Conradi, Iris Murdoch:
A Life, The New Republic January 7, 2002.
21. "Dr. True Self," review of F. Robert Rodman, Winnicott: Life
and Work, The New Republic October 27, 2003.
22. "For Once Clear to See," review of Mary Kinzie, Drift, Poetry
183 (January 2004), 235-38.
23. "The Founder," review of Judith M. Brown, Nehru: A Political
Life and Shashi Tharoor, Nehru: The Invention of India, The New
Republic, February 14, 2005.
24. "Epistemology of the Closet," review of Bart Schultz, Henry
Sidgwick: The Eye of the Universe, The Nation, June 6, 2005.
25. "The Prohibition Era," review of Kenji Yoshino, Covering: The
Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, The New Republic, March 20,
2006.
26. "Man Overboard," review of Harvey C. Mansfield, Manliness, The
New Republic, June 26, 2006.
27. "Legal Weapon," review of Catharine A. MacKinnon, Are Women
Human? And Other International Dialogues. The Nation, July
31/August 7, 2006.
28. Review of Martha Alter Chen, Perpetual Mourning: Widowhood in
Rural India; Martha Alter Chen, wed., Widows in India: Social
Neglect and Public Action; Deepa Mehta, Water (film); Bapsi Sidhwa,
Water: A Novel; Devyani Saltzman, Shooting Water: A memoir of
Second Chances, Family, and Filmmaking. Unpublished, written late
2006.
29. "Texts for Torturers," review of Philip Zimbardo, The Lucifer
Effect, The Times Literary Supplement, October 19, 2007.
30. "Stages of Thought," review of A. D. Nuttall, Shakespeare the
Thinker, Colin McGinn, Shakespeare's Philosophy: Discovering the
Meaning Behind the Plays, and Tzachi Zamir, Double Vision: Moral
Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama, The New Republic, May 7,
2008.
31. "The Passion Fashion," review of Cristina Nehring, A
Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First
Century, The New Republic, September 23, 2009.
32. "Becky, Tess, and Moll," review of Nicola Lacey, Women, Crime,
and Character: From Moll Flanders to Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The
Times Literary Supplement, September 18, 2009.
33. "Examined Life (Inheriting Socrates)," review of Astra Taylor,
The Examined Life (film), The Point 2 (winter 2010).
34. "Representative Woman," review of Christine Stansell, The
Feminist Promise: 1792 to the Present, The Nation, October 25,
2010.
35. review of Stefan Collni, That's Offensive!, The New Statesman
March 2011.
Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Love's Knowledge, Sex and Social Justice, Animal Rights (edited with Cass Sunstein), and From Disgust to Humanitiy, among many.
"This kind of serious critical engagement is important, and Martha does it with great power. The reviews also cover a wide range: they show Martha's own remarkable breadth, but also the range of subjects on which a serious and imaginative philosopher has something important to contribute." -- Joshua Cohen, Stanford University
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