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Embodied Care Jane Addams, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Feminist Ethics

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ISBN-10: 0252029283

ISBN-13: 9780252029288

Edition: 2004

Authors: Maurice Hamington

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The ideas in 'Embodied Care' do not lead to yet another competing theory of morality; rather, they progress through theory and case studies to suggest that no theory of morality can be complete without a full consideration of the body.
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List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 6/9/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Nancy Tuana is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. She works in the area of philosophy of science, epistemology, and feminist science studies. She has published The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's Nature and Woman and the History of Philosophy, and is currently at work on Philosophy of Science Studies. She has edited six anthologies including Feminism and Science and Feminist Interpretations of Plato. She is currently co-editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy and series editor of the Penn State Press series Re-Reading the Canon.William Cowling is a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is…    

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Care--an Evolving Definition
The Landscape of Current Care Discourse
Merleau-Ponty and Embodied Epistemology: Caring Habits and Caring Knowledge
Caring Imagination: Bridging Personal and Social Morality
Jane Addams and the Social Habits of Care
What Difference Does Embodied Care Make? A Study of Same-Sex Marriage
Conclusion: Experiencing One Another, Deconstructing Otherness, Joyfully Moving Ahead
Notes
Bibliography
Index