Martha Nussbaum is the most erudite and visionary scholar writing on higher education today. Once again, she has laid out a novel and compelling argument with all of the clarity and rigor we expect from her writing. Not for Profit reminds us all that the deeper purposes of liberal education go well beyond personal advancement or national competitiveness. The real project is to educate responsible global citizens who will champion democracy and human development, and who have the skills to collaborate across differences and borders to solve pressing global problems. -- Grant H. Cornwell, president of the College of Wooster This book could not be more timely nor more on target. Martha Nussbaum argues that education has become increasingly utilitarian, market-driven, career-oriented, and impoverished in its attention to the arts and humanities. The arts and humanities don't necessarily make people humane and creative, but they are, Nussbaum argues, required for Socratic examination and self-examination. If we agree with Socrates that the unexamined life is not worth living, then we need Nussbaum's argument. -- Peter Brooks, Princeton University This is an important book and a superb piece of writing, combining passionate enthusiasm with calm arguments and informative examples. Written with a lovely light touch, it introduces the reader to the much misunderstood history of progressive education and shows its contemporary relevance. -- Harry Brighouse, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Moving deftly between analysis and and polemic, the author draws on education practices in India, experimental psychology, the works of such liberal education proponents as Dewey and Tagore to emphasize the importance of critical pedagogy for the development of individual responsibility, innovation, and self-examination... [I]n advocating educational curriculums that recognize the worth of personal development and creative thought, this slim book is itself a small but decisive step in the effort to broaden and enrich current pedagogical practices. Publishers Weekly This is a passionate call to action at a time when the nation is becoming more culturally diverse and universities are cutting back on humanities programs. -- Vanessa Bush Booklist Wildavsky does a fine job of giving contour to the diffuse and multifarious phenomena that comprise the ongoing globalisation of academia... Wildavsky is forthright about his enthusiasm for what he calls a new 'free trade in minds', and he is refreshingly sceptical of all the knee-jerk rhetoric purporting to warn that America and other western powers are 'falling behind'. -- John Gravois National Nussbaum believes that cutting the liberal arts from our academic programs will lead to undereducated graduates. To make responsible decisions, a student must comprehend more than a limited business-oriented curriculum can provide... Not For Profit is required reading for educational administrators, government analysts, and liberal arts instructors at all levels. -- Julia Ann Charpentier ForeWord [A] short, though-provoking book... Not For Profit offers a passionate and persuasive defence of the humanities. While most of the cases Nussbaum discusses are drawn from the US and India, her argument has undoubted relevance for Australia. -- Tim Soutphommasane Australian Nussbaum's defense of the value of the humanities is informed, intelligent and deeply plausible--so much so that many readers might find themselves somewhat at a loss as to how our society, and indeed the world in general, has reached the point where such a book is even needed. What could be more obvious, and thus less in need of a defense, than the claim that a strong grounding in the arts and humanities is a great good, both for the individual and for the society in which she lives? ... I admire this book, as I do all Nussbaum's work, and I could not be more sympathetic to its message. -- Troy Jollimore Truthdig

Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Philosophy Department, Law School, and Divinity School at the University of Chicago. She is the author of many books, including "Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law "(Princeton).

Foreword by Ruth O'Brien ix Acknowledgments xiii CHAPTER I: The Silent Crisis 1 CHAPTER II: Education for Profit, Education for Democracy 13 CHAPTER III: Educating Citizens: The Moral (and Anti-Moral) Emotions 27 CHAPTER IV: Socratic Pedagogy: The Importance of Argument 47 CHAPTER V: Citizens of the World 79 CHAPTER VI: Cultivating Imagination: Literature and the Arts 95 CHAPTER VII: Democratic Education on the Ropes 121 Notes 145 Index 153