List of Contributors
Introduction
Daniel Engster and Steven Steyl
Part I: Situating Care Ethics
1. The Ethics of Care as a Moral Theory
Virginia Held
2. The Avoidance of Care: On the Moral Entwinement of Feminist Care Ethics and Feminist Critical Theory
Sarah Lucas
3. Care Ethics as an Anti-Theory Moral Theory
Daniel Engster
4. The Novelty of Care Ethics
Steven Steyl
Part II: Expanding and Enriching Care Ethics
5. The Continued Relevance of Care Ethics to Care Theory
Mercer Gary
6. Care Ethics and Moral Principles
Ira Chadha-Sridhar
7. The Grounds and Scope of Caring Obligations
Pip Seton Bennett
8. Grounding Care: On Commitment, Normative Justification, and the Relational Regulative Ideal in Noddings’ Caring
Sarah Clark Miller
9. Levinas and the Ontological Foundations of Intergenerational Care Ethics
Thomas Randall
Part III: Beyond Traditional Moral Theory
10. An Ethics of Not-Knowing: Care, Epistemic Vulnerability, and Radical Hope
Vrinda Dalmiya
11. Care and Moral Theory
Sandra Laugier
12. Ethics Writ Large: Care Theory as a Process Moral Aesthetic
Maurice Hamington
13. The Poetics of Care-Based Knowing: Phulkari, Motherhood, and a Transnational Approach to Culturally-Safe Care
Sarah Munawar
Conclusion
14. Conclusion: Care Ethics: Does This Change Everything?
Joan Tronto
Biography
Daniel Engster is a Professor in the Hobby School of Public Affairs and Associate Director of the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership. His research focuses on care ethics, relational egalitarianism, and public policy. His books include The Heart of Justice: Care Ethics and Political Theory; Justice, Care, and the Welfare State; and Care Ethics and Political Theory.
Steven Steyl is Lecturer in Bioethics at the University of Notre Dame Australia and an Honorary Academic at the University of Auckland. His research lies mainly in the areas of normative ethics, applied ethics, and political theory, and has appeared in a variety of journals and edited volumes including The Philosophical Quarterly, Hypatia, and Care Ethics, Religion, and Spiritual Traditions (Peeters, 2022).
