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Ein dringender Appell zum Schutz aller Tiere von der berühmten Philosophin

Weltweit sind Tiere in Not: sei es durch die Zerstörung ihrer Lebensräume, sei es durch die Qualen der industriellen Tierhaltung, durch Wilderei oder durch die Vernachlässigung von Haustieren, die wir angeblich so lieben. Tiere erleiden jeden Tag Ungerechtigkeit und Grausamkeit durch unsere Hände. Martha Nussbaum entwickelt, ausgehend von ihrem grundlegenden Fähigkeiten-Ansatz, eine neue philosophische, juristische und moralische Grundlage zum Schutz der Tiere. Von Delfinen bis Krähen,...

While America is focused on religious militancy and terrorism in the Middle East, democracy has been under siege from religious extremism in another critical part of the world. As Martha Nussbaum reveals in this penetrating look at India today, the forces of the Hindu right pose a disturbing threat to its democratic traditions and secular state.

Since long before the 2002 Gujarat riots--in which nearly two thousand Muslims were killed by Hindu extremists--the power of the Hindu right has been growing, threatening India's hard-won constitutional practices of democracy, tolerance, and...

A distinguished professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago, a prolific writer and award-winning thinker, Martha Nussbaum stands as one of our foremost authorities on law, justice, freedom, morality, and emotion. In From Disgust to Humanity, Nussbaum aims her considerable intellectual firepower at the bulwark of opposition to gay equality: the politics of disgust.

In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education.

Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry in the United States and abroad. We increasingly treat education as though its primary goal were to teach students to be economically productive rather than to think critically and...