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“... over niti. Unsurprisingly, his work on capabilities, developed with his sometime collaborator Martha Nussbaum, resurfaces in this connection. The original rationale, plausibly enough, lay in concern that the resource-based approach to distributive justice largely ignored the net impact which getting a particular handout has on its recipient’s ...”

“... the ‘little nobody’ threnody would make the songs of Loretta Lynn sound like the essays of Martha Nussbaum. There’s a fierce piety at play here, poverty porn in Wranglers, where our heroine is forever scratching together a few dollars and proving you can be good while also being trashy. It comes to seem like a familiar American tale about how to ...”

“... of a wide range of political shadings (Michael Oakeshott, Richard Rorty, Bernard Williams, Martha Nussbaum) who breathe the air of the tower far more easily than they do that of the stove. Maybe if this tendency continues, Montaigne will one day come to seem as significant a figure in the history of philosophy as Descartes. There is still some way ...”

“... of all the emotions’ because it rushes to judgment and seeks revenge at any cost. More recently, Martha Nussbaum has argued that anger is ‘highly likely to lead us astray’ rather than enable us to act in a way that will benefit us or anyone else. But it isn’t self-evident that they are asking the right question. In an interesting article, ‘The ...”

“... bodies from moral contaminants’. The insight isn’t new, and Irish praises, among others, Martha Nussbaum – who is also celebrated in Shakespeare and Virtue for her Aristotelian approach to ethics and drama, and her work on liberal education – for her thinking about culture, law and disgust. Cognition, ...”

“... crisis, environmentally unwise, everywhere politically and economically captured by the few’.† Martha Nussbaum recently denounced the United Nations ‘system’ as ‘grotesquely flawed and corrupt, totally lacking in democratic accountability, and therefore devoid of any procedural legitimacy when it comes to imposing law on people’. The loss of ...”

“... Bad for Women? is the title of a 1999 anthology edited by Joshua Cohen, Matthew Howard and Martha Nussbaum). ‘I failed her,’ Mona Sahlin, the Swedish minister for integration, said after Fadime’s death, ‘because I was afraid of fanning the flames of racism.’ Southall Black Sisters, the first group to raise the profile of honour-based ...”