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Care ethics and political theory / Daniel Engster and Maurice Hamington

Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition
First edition.
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1 online resource
Additional Creators
Engster, Daniel and Hamington, Maurice
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction / Maurice Hamington -- pt. I Care and Justice -- 2.Care and justice, still / Virginia Held -- 3.Care ethics and liberalism / Michael Slote -- 4.A theory of justice as fair terms of social life given our inevitable dependency and our inextricable interdependency / Eva Feder Kittay -- 5.Care ethics and "caring" organizations / Nel Noddings -- pt. II Applications -- 6.The supportive state: government, dependency, and responsibility for caretaking / Maxine Eichner -- 7.Privacy, surveillance, and care ethics / Marilyn Friedman -- 8.Care, normativity, and the law / Rita Manning -- 9.Of medicine and monsters: rationing and an ethics of care / Ruth Groenhout -- pt. III Care Ethics, Non-Western, and Subaltern Cultures -- 10.Towards a feminist ethics of ubuntu: bridging rights and ubuntu / Mikki van Zyl -- 11.Caring reciprocity as a relational and political ideal in Confucianism and care ethics / Maureen Sander-Staudt -- 12.Practicing care at the margins: other-mothering as public care / Julie Anne White -- pt. IV Challenging Dominant Paradigms -- 13.Care in the state of nature: the biological and evolutionary roots of the disposition to care in human beings / Daniel Engster -- 14.Theories of care as a challenge to Weberian paradigms in social science / Joan C. Tronto -- 15.Politics is not a game: the radical potential of care / Maurice Hamington -- 16.Care ethics, political theory, and the future of feminism / Fiona Robinson.
Summary
'Care Ethics and Political Theory' brings together new chapters on the nature of care ethics and its implications for politics from some of the most important philosophers working in the field today. Chapters take up long-standing questions about the relationship between care and justice and develop guidelines for the development of a care-based justice theory. Care ethics is further applied to issues such as security, privacy, law, and healthcare.
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ISBN
9780191784941 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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