Cultivating Humanity

Autorentext
Martha C. Nussbaum is the author of The Fragility of Goodness, The Monarchy of Fear, and Citadels of Pride, among other works. She is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is in the Law School and Philosophy Department. She has received three of the world s most significant awards for humanities and social science: the Kyoto Prize, the Berggruen Prize, and the 2021 Holberg Prize.

Klappentext
How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Philosopher and classicist Martha C. Nussbaum takes up the challenge of conservative critics of academe to argue persuasively that sustained reform in the aim and content of liberal education is the most vital and invigorating force in higher education.


Zusammenfassung
How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such citizens of the world in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross-cultural studies.

Inhalt
Preface Introduction: The Old Education and the Think-Academy 1. Socratic Self-Examination 2. Citizens of the World 3. The Narrative Imagination 4. The Study of Non-Western Cultures 5. African-American Studies 6. Women's Studies 7. The Study of Human Sexuality 8. Socrates in the Religious University Conclusion: The New Liberal Education Notes Index

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