Care Ethics and Poetry

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Care Ethics and Poetry is the first book to address the relationship between poetry and feminist care ethics. The authors argue that morality, and more specifically, moral progress, is a product of inquiry, imagination, and confronting new experiences. Engaging poetry, therefore, can contribute to the habits necessary for a robust moral life—specifically, caring. Each chapter offers poems that can provoke considerations of moral relations without explicitly moralizing. The book contributes to valorizing poetry and aesthetic experience as much as it does to reassessing how we think about care ethics. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Introduction (Maurice Hamington, Ce Rosenow)....Pages 1-23 Poetry and Habits of Caring Knowledge (Maurice Hamington, Ce Rosenow)....Pages 25-47 Poetry and Habits of Imagination (Maurice Hamington, Ce Rosenow)....Pages 49-71 Habits of Encountering Singularity Through Performances of Poetry and Caring (Maurice Hamington, Ce Rosenow)....Pages 73-99 Care, Poetry, and Moral Progress (Maurice Hamington, Ce Rosenow)....Pages 101-124 Back Matter ....Pages 125-130