Martha Nussbaum's Prescient Warnings about Empty Sophistry
Why "Judith Butler's hip quietism ... collaborates with evil."
This week, I read a prescient article by Martha Nussbaum published in The New Republic back in 1999 that warns of the emptiness of Judith Butler’s sophistry—which Nussbaum distinguishes from philosophy—and the dangers of embracing a Butlerian approach to feminism and culture.
Try teaching Foucault at a contemporary law school, as I have, and you will qu…
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