Of Beauty and Consolation Episode 7 Martha Nussbaum

Journalist Wim Kayzer interviews Martha Nussbaum. The American philosopher studied at New York University and Harvard. Later she wrote books like The Fragility of Goodness. She talks about her youth, the relationship with her parents, Sophocles, Aristotle and philosophy as comfort. Dutch Journalist Wim Kayzer interviews Martha Nussbaum. The American philosopher studied at the university of New York and Harvard. Later she wrote books like The Fragility of Goodness.

She talks about her childhood, her relationship with her parents, Sophocles, Aristotle and philosophy as a comfort. The individual episodes from From Beauty and Comfort are now also available for download at the VPRO.

‘Tell me what makes this life worth living. Wherein do we find beauty and is there anything to claim about that beauty. Why do we seem to know so much more about our frustrations. And what are we actually comforted by.

What, in other words, are the memories or expectations that are greater than our grief.’ Wim Kayzer put these questions to the twenty-six greats in the fields of music, visual art, science, philosophy and literature. And they tell their most personal experiences. An intellectual and emotional adventure lasting almost 40 hours.