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Nussbaum is the author or editor of a number of books that have been influential within her field, including The Fragility of Goodness ( 1986 ), Sex and Social Justice ( 1998 ), a work with Juha Sihvola, The Sleep of Reason ( 2002 ), Hiding From Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law ( 2004 ), Animal Rights ( 2004, co-editor with Cass Sunstein ), and Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership ( 2006 ).
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" On the same occasion, Emily Nussbaum wrote at Slate. com that " the show is biting the dust without ever getting the credit it deserved: for social satire, witty writing, and most of all, for a truly original main character ".
It is the birthplace or childhood home of movie directors Joel and Ethan Coen, musician Peter Himmelman, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, Senator Al Franken, songwriter Dan Israel, guitarist Sharon Isbin, writer Pete Hautman, football coach Marc Trestman, and American film director Joe Nussbaum.
Martha Nussbaum ( née Craven, May 6, 1947 ) is an American philosopher with a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy, feminism, and ethics, including animal rights.
This period also saw her marriage to Alan Nussbaum ( divorced in 1987 ), her conversion to Judaism, and the birth of her daughter Rachel, who is currently a history professor at Evergreen State College.
Nussbaum has criticized Noam Chomsky as being among the " leftist intellectuals " who hold the belief that " one should not criticize one ’ s friends, that solidarity is more important than ethical correctness ".
Nussbaum is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( elected 1988 ) and the American Philosophical Society.
" Nussbaum is even more critical of figures like Allan Bloom, Roger Kimball, and George Will for what she considers their " shaky " knowledge of non-Western cultures and inaccurate caricatures of today's humanities departments.
Nussbaum accepts Catharine MacKinnon's critique of abstract liberalism, assimilating the salience of history and context of group hierarchy and subordination, but concludes that this appeal is rooted in liberalism rather than a critique of it.
Emphasizing that female genital mutilation is carried out by brute force, its irreversibility, its non-consensual nature, and its links to customs of male domination, Nussbaum urges feminists to confront female genital mutilation as an issue of injustice.
At the same time, Nussbaum argues in support of the legalization of prostitution, a position she reiterated in a 2008 essay following the Spitzer scandal, writing " the idea that we ought to penalize women with few choices by removing one of the ones they do have is grotesque ".
Turning to shame, Nussbaum argues that shame takes too broad a target, attempting to inculcate humiliation on a scope that is too intrusive and limiting on human freedom.
Nussbaum posits that the fundamental motivations of those advocating legal restrictions against gay and lesbian Americans is a " politics of disgust ".
Nussbaum argues the harm principle, which supports the legal ideas of consent, the age of majority and privacy, protects citizens while the " politics of disgust " is merely an unreliable emotional reaction with no inherent wisdom.
Nussbaum argues that standard social contractarianism, while far better than utilitarianism in providing a satisfactory framework for justice, relies on the belief and assumption that cooperation is pursued for the purpose of securing mutual advantage.
Noting that Rawls himself acknowledged the failure of his theory of justice to comprehensively address these three frontiers, Nussbaum claims that Rawls's attempt to expand his theory to address one of these areas — transnational justice — is " ultimately unsatisfying " because he fails to follow through with the essential elements developed in A Theory of Justice, namely, by relaxing some of the key assumptions about the parties to the original contract.
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum has argued that something is objectified if any of the following factors is present:
He has a keen interest in political philosophy, and his philosophical outlook is influenced by Karl Popper, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Paine, Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum.
Sleepover is a 2004 American teen film directed by Joe Nussbaum and starring Alexa Vega, Mika Boorem, Jane Lynch, Sam Huntington Sara Paxton, Brie Larson, Steve Carell and Jeff Garlin.
Speak of the Devil is an album by guitarist John Abercrombie with organist Dan Wall and drummer Adam Nussbaum recorded in 1993 and released on the ECM label
Martha C. Nussbaum, concurring with Novetzke, adds that while the agenda of those in the American Hindu community who criticize Doniger appears similar to that of the Hindu right-wing in India, it is not quite the same since it has " no overt connection to national identity ", and that it has created feelings of guilt among American scholars, given the prevailing ethos of ethnic respect, that they might have offended people from another culture.
Estelle Harris ( née Nussbaum ; April 4, 1928 ) is a stand-up comedienne, actress, and voice artist, often recognized for her shrill, grating voice.
Professor Martha Nussbaum at the University of Chicago Law school stated, "' Ceremonial Deism ' is an odd name for a ritual affirmation that a Deist would be very reluctant to endorse, since Deists think of God as a rational causal principle but not as a personal judge and father.
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Playing a number of dialect roles in Allen's clever news spoofs and various other satires, Pious developed them into the Russian-Jewish housewife Mrs. Nussbaum by 1942, the year in which Allen's news spoofs finally developed into the " Allen's Alley " routines.
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Its well-regarded culture critics include David Edelstein ( movies ), Emily Nussbaum ( TV ), Jerry Saltz ( art ), Justin Davidson ( classical music and architecture ), and Sam Anderson ( books ), who won the National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing in 2007.
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" Fellow White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum felt that if Foster had lived, he would have helped resist the calls to appoint Independent Counsels, and the many investigations lumped under the Whitewater umbrella that occupied the administration and the Clintons for the rest of their terms, might not have happened.
Grandma Nussbaum appears to have been a primary caregiver to Fonzie through the age of six.
* Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen have employed virtue theory in theorizing the capability approach to international development.
More broadly, Nussbaum criticized Michel Foucault for his " historical incompleteness and lack of conceptual clarity ", but nevertheless singled him out for providing " the only truly important work to have entered philosophy under the banner of " postmodernism ".
Drawing upon her earlier work on the relationship between disgust & shame, Nussbaum notes that at various times racism, antisemitism, sexism, have all been driven by popular revulsion.
Nussbaum argues that the contractarian approach cannot explain justice in the absence of free, equal and independent parties in an original position in which " all have something with which to bargain and none have too much " ( with reference to Rousseau and Hume ), concluding that the procedural perspective alone cannot provide an adequate theory of justice.
Mike, his associate Joey ( Mike Nussbaum ), and their mark ( Walsh ) come upon a briefcase of money that someone seems to have accidentally left on the street before getting into a cab.
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Though he had been an architectural theorist and professor for many years, Libeskind completed his first building at the age of 52, with the opening of the Felix Nussbaum Haus in 1998.
* Allen actually had to fight to keep Mrs. Nussbaum in the Allen's Alley routines – because NBC feared Jewish-dialect humor " might offend all Jews ", never mind that Jewish dialect humour had been a vaudeville and burlesque staple for years.
Nussbaum notes that popular disgust has been used throughout history as a justification for persecution.
His theoretical writings emphasized empathy, imagination, and, in the words of philosopher Martha Nussbaum, who has been a proponent of his work, " the highly particular transactions that constitute love between two imperfect people.
Livingstone, Nussbaum, and Kennedy all offered apologies to those whose files had been obtained.
Steinberg had reportedly been hired by a single mother to locate a suitable adoptive family for Lisa, but instead took the child home and raised her with Nussbaum, never filing formal adoption papers.
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In her essay " Sophistry about Conventions ," philosopher Martha Nussbaum argues that Stanley Fish's theoretical views are based on " extreme relativism and even radical subjectivism.
For example, Martha Nussbaum in her discussion of desire and emotion includes Seneca among the Stoics who offered important insights and perspectives on emotions and their role in our lives.
Nussbaum later extended her examination to Seneca's contribution to political philosophy showing considerable subtlety and richness in his thoughts about politics, education and notions of global citizenship and finding a basis for reform minded education in Seneca's ideas that allows her to propose a mode of modern education which steers clear of both narrow traditionalism and total rejection of tradition.
Emily Nussbaum for Slate would praise the show for both having a character that many disaffected teenagers could relate to and for showing " the flipside of her principled withdrawal from the world: her crippling terror of rejection, a streak of ugly self-righteousness ".
Nussbaum was born in New York City, the daughter of George Craven, a Philadelphia lawyer, and Betty Warren, an interior designer and homemaker ; during her teenage years, Nussbaum attended the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr.
During her studies at Harvard, Nussbaum claims she encountered a tremendous amount of discrimination, including sexual harassment, and problems getting childcare for her daughter.
Nussbaum has engaged in many spirited debates with other intellectuals, in her academic writings as well as in the pages of semi-popular magazines and book reviews and, in one instance, when testifying as an expert witness in court.
Nussbaum used multiple references from Plato's " Symposium " and his interactions with Socrates as evidence for her argument.
He rebukes her for " contempt for the opinions of ordinary people " and ultimately accuses Nussbaum herself of " hiding from humanity ".
Nussbaum has recently drawn on and extended her work on disgust to produce a new analysis of the legal issues regarding sexual orientation and same-sex conduct.
* November 2, 1987 – Joel Steinberg and his lover Hedda Nussbaum are arrested for the beating and neglect of their 6-year old adopted daughter Lisa Steinberg who died two days later from her injuries.
In exchange for her testimony against Steinberg, Nussbaum was not prosecuted for events related to Lisa's death ( Nussbaum was alone in the apartment with an unconscious and bleeding Lisa for over ten hours without seeking any medical attention for the girl ).
Invariably, she greeted Allen's knock on her door with her Yiddish " Nuuuuuu ," then answered Allen's cheery " Mrs. Nussbaum!
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