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October/November 1994

Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism

Martha Nussbaum’s “Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism,” with responses by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Pinsky, Judith Butler, David Strauss, Rachel Hadas, George Fletcher, Nathan Glazer, and many others– now a book published by Beacon Press. Plus poetry, book reviews, and more.

Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism
Martha Nussbaum with photographs by Peter Menzel, Lynn Johnson, and Shawn G. Henry, and responses by Anthony Appiah, Harvey C. Mansfield, Anne Norton, Robert Pinsky, Hilary Putnam, Richard Sennett, Benjamin R. Barber, Immanuel Wallerstein, Amy Gutmann, Michael Dorris, Judith Butler, Leo Marx, Paul Berman, David A. Strauss, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Lloyd Rudolph, Michael Lerner, Charles Beitz, Rachel Hadas, William E. Connolly, Nathan Glazer, Charles Taylor, Herbert Gintis, Michael Walzer, Anthony Kronman, George Fletcher, Lawrence Blum, Sissela Bok, and Sheldon Hackney. Martha Nussbaum responds.


Reviews

Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell by Paul Mariani
Don Share

The Desire and the Pursuit of the Whole: The First Complete Edition by Frederick Rolfe
Richard Kaye

Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster
Jeffrey Goldsmith

In a Time of Violence by Eavan Boland
David Barber

Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968-1993 by Heather McHugh
Joshua Weiner


Boy’s Poem
David Gewanter

Rilke’s Argument with Don Giovanni
Alan Williamson

Telephoning In Mexican Sunlight
Galway Kinnell

Poet’s Sampler
Lloyd Schwartz introduces Robyn Selman

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