Care Ethics and Political Theory

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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 health care where little work has been previously done. By bringing care ethics into conversation with non-Western and subaltern cultures, the contributing authors further show how care ethics can guide and learn from other traditions. A final set of chapters uses care ethics to challenge dominant moral and political paradigms and offer an alternative foundation for future moral and political theory. The book as a whole makes the case for care ethics as an equal or superior approach to morality and politics compared with liberalism, luck egalitarianism, libertarianism, the capabilities approach, communitarianism, and other political theories. The volume includes many of the leading care scholars in the world today engaging in both theoretical and applied discussions of this burgeoning field of study. Ultimately, Care Ethics and Political Theory endeavors to find realistic methods and ways of thinking to create a more caring world. Dedication Acknowledgements Contents List of Contributors 1. Introduction • Daniel Engster and Maurice Hamington Part 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 Part 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 Part III. Care Ethics, Non-Western, and Subaltern Cultures 10. Towards a feminist ethics of ubuntu: bridging rights and ubuntu • Amanda Gouws and 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 Part 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 paradigmsin 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 Index