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Introduction: Cultivating Humanity with Martha Nussbaum

Introduction: Cultivating Humanity with Martha Nussbaum Introduction: Cultivating Humanity with Martha Nussbaum david gorman and kenneth womack e Th vast, ever-growing corpus of Martha C. Nussbaum’s work ranges over legal study, moral philosophy, political theory, classical studies, e - duca tional policy, and literature. This makes it sound as if she is one of those contemporary thinkers who ignores disciplinary boundaries as just so many obstacles to making half-baked pronouncements on anything and everything. Nussbaum’s most impressive quality, however, is precisely that she undertakes to master each subject-area with which she engages. As a result she can develop lines of thought that are genuinely cross-disciplinary, in the sense that considering a topic or (in the case of literature) reading a work in the context of a different framework will produce new ideas that are  both substantive and suggestive. They can be considered, debated, re-imagined, extended—as we can see in this group of essays. Nussbaum established her reputation w e F Th itrh agility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (1986, 2nd ed. 2001), a philosophically broad and philologically minute analysis of moral thought in fifth- and fourth-century BCE Greece. What may be most striking about this remarkable work is that, alongside http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Interdisciplinary Literary Studies Penn State University Press

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Introduction: Cultivating Humanity with Martha Nussbaum david gorman and kenneth womack e Th vast, ever-growing corpus of Martha C. Nussbaum’s work ranges over legal study, moral philosophy, political theory, classical studies, e - duca tional policy, and literature. This makes it sound as if she is one of those contemporary thinkers who ignores disciplinary boundaries as just so many obstacles to making half-baked pronouncements on anything and everything. Nussbaum’s most impressive quality, however, is precisely that she undertakes to master each subject-area with which she engages. As a result she can develop lines of thought that are genuinely cross-disciplinary, in the sense that considering a topic or (in the case of literature) reading a work in the context of a different framework will produce new ideas that are  both substantive and suggestive. They can be considered, debated, re-imagined, extended—as we can see in this group of essays. Nussbaum established her reputation w e F Th itrh agility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (1986, 2nd ed. 2001), a philosophically broad and philologically minute analysis of moral thought in fifth- and fourth-century BCE Greece. What may be most striking about this remarkable work is that, alongside

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Published: Jun 16, 2017

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