Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, The Law School, University of Chicago

Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, appointed in the Law School, the Philosophy Department, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Author of OUP titles Love's Knowledge, Sex and Social Justice, Philosophical Interventions; others; as well as Not for Profit (Princeton 2010), Upheavals of Thought (CUP 2003), Creating Capabilities (Harvard 2011), Frontiers of Justice (Harvard 2010), among others.

"Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice is an outstanding work, one that manages to build on many threads of Nussbaum's previous scholarship while breaking new ground in a way that stands on its own." - Gregory R. Peterson, Journal of Moral Philosophy

"In all, the work provides a key philosophical addition to her volumes on emotional development and political liberal justice... Her strict focus on leadership pronouncements rather than de facto psychological and sociological dynamics opens the analysis to charges of empirically inattentive moralizing." - Steven Schoonover, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities

"The book is deeply thought-provoking and persuasive." - Stuart Jesson, Studies in Christian Ethics

"A timely meditation on the place of anger in our private and public lives... [Nussbaum's] writing, as always, is erudite and engaging, and she uses it to craft a sharp lens through which students of politics can interpret current events." - Dan Degerman, Contemporary Political Theory

"A very impressive, wide-ranging, much reflected-upon work of moral and political philosophy" - Trevor Pateman, Philosophy Now

"Quite aside from any polemic, ethically, Nussbaum's book helps reader to discern between populism in penology, and a theory of anger which leads to further understanding." - Maximiliano E. Korstanje, International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies

"Nussbaum is one of the most productive and insightful thinkers of her generation ... She combines a philosopher's demand for conceptual clarity and rigorous thinking with a novelist's interest in narrative, art and literature. The result is an impressive body of work spanning the overlapping territories of politics, ethics and the emotions." - Julian Baginni, Prospect

"Shame on us for accepting anger and good on Nussbaum for calling us out." - Alice Bloch, New Humanist

"In her impressively rich book on anger and forgiveness, Martha Nussbaum provides a broad and deep critique of score-keeping in general and of moral and legal score-keeping in particular." - David Heyd, Criminal Justice Ethics

"Nussbaum is a connoisseur of emotions" - VN