Martha C. Nussbaum, distinguished service professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago and the author of <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-republic-of-love-9780197812556?cc=us&lang=en&" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Republic of Love: Opera & Political Freedom</a> (Oxford University Press, 2026), offers her analysis of opera as an arm of the Enlightenment, from Mozart to today.
 
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Martha C. Nussbaum, distinguished service professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago and the author of The Republic of Love: Opera & Political Freedom (Oxford University Press, 2026), offers her analysis of opera as an arm of the Enlightenment, from Mozart to today. cover image courtesy of the publisher

Martha C. Nussbaum, distinguished service professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago&nbsp;and the author of <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-republic-of-love-9780197812556?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Republic of Love: Opera &amp; Political Freedom</a>&nbsp;(Oxford University Press, 2026), offers her analysis of opera as an arm of the Enlightenment, from Mozart to today.
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