About this title: How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for the truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender and nation? In this book the author argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such "citizens of the world" in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross-cultural studies. Nussbaum's ...
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780674179493ISBN:0674179498
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Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780674179493ISBN:0674179498
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARVARD UNIV PR
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780674179493ISBN:0674179498
Description: New. How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Philosopher and classicist Martha C. Nussbaum takes up the challenge of conservative critics o... read more
"I'm not enough of a scholar to evaluate Nussbaums's treatment of "The Clouds" or Rousseau (are you?) but her treatment of the major topics is thought provoking -- and thus the book is well worth reading.
The only significant flaws I stumbled upon were her dismissal of the paradox of democratic change, and of the objections of ideology.
The former: when is a minority (perhaps 'elite') position a legitimate corrective/adjustment to a democracy, and when is it an extremist and illegitimate distraction? The astonishing fact is that the problem in distinguishing one from the other interferes greatly with Nussbaum's laudatory depictions of "diversity" education, without providing even a hint of the underlying dilemma. For instance, arguments against racial bigotry are implicitly conflated, in Nussbaum's book, with arguments against homosexuality. Personally, I agree with this... but how is a democracy to arrive at such a conclusion? Any controversy must, inevitably, be advocated at first by a minority. When is such a minority to be granted the academic privilege (as Gender Studies have, in todays University) and when not (as the 'pro-life' or 'creationist' perspectives)? Nussbaum completely ignores the problem, treating the liberal perspective as the only rational one.
This is related to the latter problematique: sometime a "received" doctrine discerns a threat in the argument for "diversity". To a liberal, this perspective seems absurd. But where is the line to be drawn? If an alien culture (or domestic minority) were to advocate something extreme -- perhaps human sacrifice or infant euthanasia? How are 'believers' to discern which moral positions are too extreme to be defended (bias against miscegenation; homosexual behavior) and which are defensible? (suttee? abortion?) Nussbaum provides no guidance; nor -- more importantly -- does she elaborate on how the academy is to respond to questions regarding such a delineation."
"Nussbaum's wish for liberal arts in education is that Cosmopolitanism be injected to replace Nationalism in the present phase of liberal education in Western civilization. Yet there is something suspect about her brand of Cosmopolitanism. It is not the benign sort Kwame Appiah, but feels more like the sort of Cosmopolitanism that should be analyzed and updated version of Edward Said's Orientalism. Nussbaum uses the subtle language of Western Imperialism to explain how the triumph of Western Civilization should be a compassionate, imaginative triumph with a sensitive understanding of the "others". It is akin to the the type of animal rights advocacy that calls for bigger, nicer cages at the zoo. This book should be read in contrast with "Is Science Multi-Cultural?" by Susan Harding and anything by Homi Bhabha in order to better understand how Nussbaum has got it wrong."
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