Care Ethics and the Refugee Crisis

This book advocates for the philosophical import of care in re-evaluating problems of humanitarianism in the context of the ongoing international refugee and forced migration situation. In doing so, it rethinks the human capacity to care about the suffering of distant others.

Autorentext

Marcia Morgan is Associate Professor of Philosophy and 2020-21 Program Director at the Center for Ethics at Muhlenberg College, USA. She is the author of Kierkegaard and Critical Theory (2012) and co-editor of Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy: Thinking the Plural (2016).

Inhalt

Introduction

1. Contextualizing the Problem: Rethinking Care Beyond Good and Evil

2. Aesthetic Care: Witnessing the Muteness of Human Suffering

3. From the Aesthetic to the Ethical: Self-Care and Care of the Other as Contestation

4. From Care Ethics to Political Care: Dependency, Misidentification, and Justice

5. Affective Rejoinders: Reconsidering the Role of Emotions and Imagination in Political Care

6. Contestatory Care as Love: Toward an Understanding of Religious Care

Conclusion