Mistress Judith (was Re: Butler on Spivak)

[Sam Pawlett]

michael perelman wrote:
> 
> I know nothing of Nussbaum as a philosopher, but she did co-edit a book with Amartya Sen, The Quality of Life (Oxford: Clarendon Press).
> 

 
I'm not sure if they're married but Sen and Nussbaum have been partners
for a long time. Nussbaum is a great philosopher and classical scholar.
Check out her book on Aristotle and Plato  *The Fragility of Goodness.*
She is well known (or notorious) in philosophy for defending literature
as a means to moral education and moral/political theorizing. She was
hired by the U of Chicago Law school as an antidote to  Posner and the
Law&Economics people. Her overtly political stuff is very abstract,
centering around the Aristotlean conception of practical reasoning.

Sam Pawlett