Care Ethics and Phenomenology: a Contested Kinship

This book investigates the relationship between philosophical
phenomenology and ethics of care. The relationship between these two
traditions in normative philosophy is particularly fascinating for
theoretical scholars, researchers as well as bioethicists and health
care clinicians. Both traditions elucidate the normative significance of
human experience, emotion and embodiment. One reason for investigating
the relationship is that care is both a concept (ethical, sociological
etc.), a practice, and a phenomenon that has significant bearing upon
human existence. Care as a phenomenon and concept also regards the human
condition and experience as being invested with normativity. <br/><br/>







The book brings together care ethicists of different scholarly
generations and from different countries (Belgium, Norway, USA, the
Netherlands) who each explain their version of phenomenology, and
secondly it includes three of today's prominent German phenomenologists
who have reflected on care. Hopefully, the collection will stimulate
care ethicists to inquire more deeply into phenomenology, and
phenomenologists looking for connection with care ethics.