Emotions and Care: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

This volume explores the connections between emotions and
care-understood here as a practice, an ethical ideal and a moral
disposition. Ever since its origins in the early 1980s, the ethics of
care has been built on the presupposition that there are intimate links
between our emotional lives and care. Nonetheless, relatively little
scholarship has been devoted to the close study of these connections or
to an exploration of the 'darker' emotions that can often accompany
care. This edited volume hopes to address this relative neglect in the
literature by offering interdisciplinary perspectives on the matter.
Penned by scholars from different parts of the world, the essays in this
volume seek to bring greater conceptual articulacy into our discussions
of the ways emotions can motivate or thwart care. Some contributors also
offer critical assessments of care ethics scholarship-discussing, for
instance, the feminist stakes in the debate over the significance of
emotions for care. Other contributions propose novel ways of exploring
the ties between emotions and care by bringing new voices and authors
into the debate-mostly from phenomenological, literary and
anthropological circles.</br></br>







This collection includes contributions from: Monika Betzler, Caterina
Botti, Sophie Bourgault, Fabienne Brugère, Guido Cusinato, Luigina
Mortari, Inge van Nistelrooij, Patricia Paperman, Elena Pulcini,
Vincenzo Sorrentino, and Rossana Trifiletti.