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Sex and Social Justice (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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Martha Nussbaum is an Ernst Freund Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. She writes about classical literature, philosophy, divinity, law, politics, feminism, economic development, psychology, educational reform, and human emotion. Not surprisingly to those who know her, she does an admirable job with all of these subjects because she is a brilliant philosopher and a prolific writer with the gift of making the most complex and even arcane subjects readable and tantalizing without sacrificing analytic rigor or scholarship. The hallmark of her intellectual brilliance...

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