Prof. Dr. Martha C. Nussbaum highlights the importance of music in education and democracy and the vital function of philanthropy within it. This conversation with Twan Huys took place on March 10, 2020 during an event of Het Concertgebouw Fonds in which Martha talked about the role of music in her personal life.
This video is part of Mahler Festival Online. Tonight at 20:30 you can enjoy Symphony No. 3, played by the Concertgebouworkest and conducted by Mariss Jansons.
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Professor Nussbaum is certainly a unique and iconoclastic scholar who defies being categorized. She properly has criticized rigid Marxists such as Noam Chomsky, but also has derided intelligent and thoughtful conservatives such as Allan Bloom. But she does a disservice to the wonderful commentaries provided in connection with the Concertgebouw's 2020 Mahler Festival by implying that the worldview of Gustav Mahler, certainly a classical liberal for his time, reinforces and validates her critique of contemporary American conservatism and President Trump. It simply is not possible to know what the great liberals of Mahler's era, such as Emile Zola, would think of what passes for liberalism today.