Martha C. Nussbaum

Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, appointed in the Law School and the Philosophy Department. Among her many awards are the 2018 Berggruen Prize, the 2017 Don M. Randel Award for Humanistic Studies from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 2016 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy.

Beyond Good and Evil: Reconsidering the Toxic Myth of the “Transgressive” Artist

Martha C. Nussbaum on What We Forgive in the Name of Art

May 13, 2021 By Martha C. Nussbaum

Is There Such a Thing as an Ethics of Cosmopolitanism?

Martha C. Nussbaum Goes All the Way Back to Cicero

August 19, 2019 By Martha C. Nussbaum

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