Embodied care : Jane Addams, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and feminist ethics /

Hamington, Maurice.

Embodied care : Jane Addams, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and feminist ethics / Maurice Hamington. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2004. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



9780252091469 9781283431965

2019718455


Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.


Caring.
Human body (Philosophy)
Feminist ethics.


Electronic Books.

BJ1475 / .E436 2004