The University of Chicago is perhap...

The University of Chicago is perhaps better known as the abode of Milton Friedman, patron saint and theorist of Reagan's revolution, than the habitus of Martha Nussbaum, philosopher and recently-appointed Professor of Law, Literature and Ethics at the Law and Divinity place of educations of the University of Chicago. If we are fortunate this reputation will change. Nussbaum's Poetic Justice may be read as a salvo against the hegemony of free-market ideology and utilitarian calculation in public discourse. More precisely, Nussbaum challenges the unphilosophical, pseudo-scientific claims of