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To Martha C. Nussbaum
Preface
The genesis for this book comes from two conferences. The first hosted at
St Mary’s College, Durham University, by me saw the early drafts of
papers by Sara Protasi, Clare Chambers, Mozaffar Qizilbash and I on citi-
zenship. Our theme was engaging with Martha Nussbaum’s The New
Religious Intolerance. The second conference focused on Nussbaum’s
Political Emotions hosted at King’s College London by John Tasioulas,
where we included a paper originally from that event by Tasioulas and
Amia Srinivasan. There is an earlier essay by Nussbaum to help set the
scene included here, new work by Rick Anthony Furtak and I followed
by a major reply by Nussbaum to these papers. I must thank Durham
and KCL for supporting these events and Tasioulas for his support for a
volume coming out of these two events. I extend warm thanks to all the
authors for their terrific contributions and patience as this volume came
together. I owe special thanks to Palgrave Macmillan, especially Brendan
George and Lauriane Piette, for their steadfast support and patience
as well.
My biggest thanks are to Martha Nussbaum. Her work inspires so
many and so profoundly as one of the greatest moral and political phi-
losophers working today. The breadth of contributions is as impressive as
their number. These include various works examining our political emo-
tions, an area of enormous interest and potential impact as the essays
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included in this book attest to. Since my graduate school days, Nussbaum
has been a dear friend and mentor. I am grateful to her for agreeing to be
at the centre of the Durham and KCL events and her support for putting
these papers with expanded coverage into this collection. It is to her that
I dedicate this book.
Durham, UK Thom Brooks
Acknowledgement
‘Political Objectivity’ was originally published as Martha C. Nussbaum,
‘Political Objectivity’, New Literary History 32 (2001): 883–906. It is
reprinted with permission.
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Contents
Introduction 1
Thom Brooks
Political Objectivity 11
Martha C. Nussbaum
Envy as a Civic Emotion 41
Sara Protasi
How the Body Is Involved in Moral and Cognitive Emotions 59
Rick Anthony Furtak
Conscience and Context 81
Clare Chambers
The Politics of Compassion 99
Amia Srinivasan
Cultivating Citizenship: On the Importance of Stakeholding 115
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