Care Ethics and Political Theory

Daniel Engster is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His books include The Heart of Justice: Care Ethics and Political Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), Justice, Politics, and the Family, co-edited with Tamara Metz, (Boulder: Paradigm Publishing, 2014), and Justice, Care, and the Welfare State (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015). He has published articles on care ethics and animal welfare, public policy and parenting, child poverty, and other issues relating to care ethics, the family, and justice.Maurice Hamington is Director of University Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University. His books including Revealing Philosophy (Thinking Strings, 2013-an interactive e-textbook), The Social Philosophy of Jane Addams (University of Illinois Press, 2009), and Embodied Care (University of Illinois Press, 2004). He has also edited or coedited six books including Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism with Celia Bardwell-Jones (Routledge, April 2012), Applying Care Ethics to Business with Maureen Sander-Staudt (Springer, 2011), and Socializing Care with Dorothy Miller (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006). His current research and writing address an embodied, performative theory of care and its application.

Care Ethics and Political Theory is a collection of fifteen original essays that explore the implications and applications of care to social and political policies, practices, and theories.

1: Daniel Engster and Maurice Hamington: Introduction