
Criticism and Compassion
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* Investigates her work as an early leader in the development of feminist philosophy, challenging many preconceptions about the society's norms regarding gender, marriage, and motherhood
* Crossing many disciplinary boundaries, her concept of social death has come to play a significant role in multidisciplinary field of genocide studies
* This volume combines many of Claudia Card's important essays with recently commissioned essays by leading philosophers whose work has been influenced by Card
* The full scope of Card's philosophy is presented here - both in her own words and those of her critics and interpreters
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ARMEN T. MARSOOBIAN is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University and Editor-in-Chief of Metaphilosophy. He has taught as a visiting professor at Columbia University. He has lectured and published extensively on topics in American philosophy, aesthetics, moral philosophy, and genocide studies. He has edited five books, including The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy and Genocide's Aftermath: Responsibility and Repair with Claudia Card. His award-winning book Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia is based upon extensive research about his family, the Dildilians, who were accomplished photographers in the Ottoman Empire. Exhibitions of their photography were mounted in Turkey, Armenia, Great Britain, and the United States.
Content
- Intro
- Criticism and Compassion
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- References
- PART ONE War, Genocide, and Evil
- 1 Rape as a Weapon of War
- Notes
- References
- 2 Addendum to "Rape as a Weapon of War"
- References
- 3 Stoicism, Evil, and the Possibility of Morality
- References
- 4 Women, Evil, and Gray Zones
- Gray Zones
- What Makes Gray Zones Gray?
- Women and Morally Gray Choices
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 5 Genocide and Social Death
- 1. What Is Feminist About Analyzing Genocide?
- 2. Genocide, War, and Justice
- 3. The Concept of Genocide
- 4. The Specific Evils of Genocide
- References
- 6 The Paradox of Genocidal Rape Aimed at Enforced Pregnancy
- 1. The Problem and Its Background
- 2. What Is Genocide?
- 3. The "Logical Glitch"
- 4. Sperm as a Biological Weapon
- Notes
- References
- 7 Surviving Long-Term Mass Atrocities
- Conceptual Issues
- The Ethics of Surviving
- References
- 8 Perpetrators and Social Death
- Perpetrators: Persons, Not Monsters
- Gangs, Social Vitality, and Moral Luck
- "The tiny thing that would change me into a killer"
- Responding to Evil Without Doing Evil
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 9 Claudia Cards Concept of Social Death
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Body Counts
- 3. Card and Genocide as Social Death
- 4. Conclusion
- References
- 10 Surviving Evils and the Problem of Agency
- 1. A Grim Triad-Victims, Evils, and Survival
- 2. Survival Tactics
- 3. Autonomy and Agency
- 4. Survival Agency?
- 5. Surviving Trafficking and Sexual Violence
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 11 Institutional Evils, Culpable Complicity, and Duties to Engage in Moral Repair
- Introduction
- Institutional Evils in Context: The Medical Management of Intersex Anatomies
- Complicity in Evil Practices and Institutions
- Culpable Complicity and Unnecessary Normalizing Interventions for Intersex
- Responding to Culpable Complicity
- The Reparative Work of Apology
- The Culpably Complicit Persons Apology
- Confronting Resistance to Asking for Apology from Culpably Complicit Persons
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- PART TWO Feminist Ethical Theory and Its Applications
- 12 Against Marriage and Motherhood
- Backgrounds
- Lesbian (or Gay) Marriage?
- Why Motherhood?
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 13 Gay Divorce
- The Ideal: Deregulate, Not Further Regulate
- The Reality: A Set of Undesirable Options
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 14 Challenges of Global and Local Misogyny
- Global and Local Misogyny
- Evils
- Principles for Individuals
- Containing Unavoidable Injustice
- "War" on Women
- Ideal Contracts, Original Positions, and Hypothetical Agreements
- Principles for Individual Self-Defense in a War on Women
- Guerrilla Feminism
- Acknowledgments
- Works by Rawls, with Abbreviations
- Other References
- 15 Taking Pride in Being Bad
- Kants Theory of Radical Evil in Human Nature
- The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evil
- Solving Kants Mystery
- Korsgaard on Self-Conception as a Source of Normativity
- Benjamins "Important Persons and their Internalized Representations" (IPIRS)
- 16 Hate Crime Legislation Reconsidered
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Hate Crime Legislation
- 3. Cards Concerns About Hate Crime Legislation
- 4. Whats So Special About Hate Crimes?
- 5. Critique: What Sort of Comparative Judgment, if Any, Does Penalty Enhancement Presuppose?
- 6. Cards Likely Response
- 7. More Cardian Rejoinders
- 8. Concluding Thoughts
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 17 Misplaced Gratitude and the Ethics of Oppression
- Introduction
- Cards Feminist Lens
- Cards Critique of Care Ethics
- Ambiguity Is Not Enough
- Misplaced Gratitude Versus Gratitude
- How to Express Gratitude?
- Concluding Reflections
- References
- 18 The Challenges of Extreme Moral Stress
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Claudia Cards Place in Nonideal Ethical Theory
- 3. Cardian Contributions: Administrative Perspectives and Intolerable Harms
- 4. Conclusion: Did Card Need NET? Do We?
- References
- 19 Radical Moral Imagination and Moral Luck
- 1. Radical Moral Imagination
- 2. Taking Responsibility, and Moral Luck
- 3. Assessing Risky Undertakings
- Coda: A Duty to Resist Oppression?
- References
- 20 The American Girl
- Preface
- 1. The Doll: A Very Brief History
- 2. Doing a Doll
- 3. Feminism and the American Girl
- References
- Index
- EULA
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