Not for profit : why democracy needs the humanities : with a new afterword by the author

136 Pages·2012·0.93 MB·English

by  Nussbaum

NOT FOR PROFIT
The Public Square Book Series
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
MARTHA C . NUSSBAUM
With a new afterword by the author
NOT FOR
WHY DEMOCRACY
Needs
THE HUMANITIES
PROFIT
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Fourteenth printing, and first paperback printing,
with a new afterword, 2012
Paperback ISBN 978-0-691-15448-0
The Library of Congress has cataloged the cloth edition of this book as follows Nussbaum, Martha Craven,
1947– Not for profit : why democracy needs the humanities / Martha C. Nussbaum.
p. cm. — (The public square book series) Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-691-14064-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Education, Humanistic—Philosophy.
2. Democracy and education. I. Title.
LC1011.N88 2010
370.11'5—dc22 2009053897
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[H]istory has come to a stage when the moral man, the complete man, is
more and more giving way, almost without knowing it, to make room for
the . . . commercial man, the man of limited purpose. This process, aided
by the wonderful progress in science, is assuming gigantic proportion and
power, causing the upset of man’s moral balance, obscuring his human
side under the shadow of soul-less organization.
—Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, 1917
Achievement comes to denote the sort of thing that a well-planned
machine can do better than a human being can, and the main effect of
education, the achieving of a life of rich significance, drops by the
wayside.
—John Dewey, Democracy and Education, 1915
To Lois Goutman, Marthe Melchior, Marion Stearns,
and all my teachers at the Baldwin School
CONTENTS
Foreword by Ruth O’Brien
Acknowledgments
I
The Silent Crisis
II
Education for Profit, Education for Democracy
III
Educating Citizens:
The Moral (and Anti-Moral) Emotions
IV
Socratic Pedagogy:
The Importance of Argument
V
Citizens of the World
VI
Cultivating Imagination:
Literature and the Arts
VII
Democratic Education on the Ropes
Afterword to the Paperback Edition:
Reflections on the Future of the Humanities—
at Home and Abroad
Notes
Index