So far a whole load of new Authors like Charles Taylor previously. This is an New World which is hithertoo unchartered.
The Lesson so far is WIDE READING of those you like and don't like. (Charles Taylor). The Philosophy book reading seems to be a mainstay of academic reading.
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This book is incredibly dense, almost prohibitively so, but I found it well worth the effort and persistence. I am unfamiliar with philosophy, so the language of argument and some of the rhetoric was daunting at first, though I began to get the gist of it and found that with continued attention, there was much that was very accessible.

Dr. Nussbaum is very good at breaking down a subject into easily discussed topics, something that is required if the conversation about something as broadly defined and amorphous as emotion and the role it plays in the reasoned life. I have heard her give interviews and a few lectures and am consistently affected by the care and specificity with which she speaks. She draws many varied works of art into her discussion of how we process emotion, particularly the emotion we call love, as we grow and live day to day. I found the conversation regarding James Joyce's Ulysses particularly powerful.
It is a wonderful work for deeper consideration. This book traveled with me in my life for a full year, and will do so again, a thing to which I look forward with joy. ( )