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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815754003321

Autore

Hamington Maurice

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2004

ISBN

1-283-43196-3

9786613431967

0-252-09146-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Disciplina

177/.7

Soggetti

Caring

Human body (Philosophy)

Feminist ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-175) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.