Book Review: Martha C. Nussbaum, 2012. Philosophical Interventions. New York: Oxford.
Abstract
In 1951, four-year-old Martha Nussbaum joined a group of girls in the midst of talking about party dresses. Hearing of the fantastic, dream-like dresses the girls were describing, Nussbaum assumed they were playing make-believe and so she imagined a bejewelled velvet dress in pink. As it turns out, the girls were describing dresses they actually owned. When Nussbaum told them of her imaginary dress, the girls were harsh and condescending. Martha Nussbaum has never again joined a group. She has called this the most embarrassing moment of her life, but perhaps it was a blessing in disguise, for Nussbaum’s acute understanding of the concepts of imagination and justice have made her one of the world’s most well-respected moral and political philosophers.
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