Cultivating Humanity

A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education

Martha C. Nussbaum

  • Winner of the Frederic W. Ness Book Award for 1999, for the Most Significant Contribution to Studies on Liberal Education, Awarded by the Association for American Colleges and Universities
  • 2002 Grawemeyer Award in Education

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

  • Cover: Cultivating Humanity
  • A photo of the author

Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics Department of Philosophy, Law School, and Divinity School at the University of Chicago. She is the author of many books, including Poetic Justice, Love’s Knowledge, and The Fragility of Goodness.