Care Ethics and Poetry

Care Ethics and Poetry is the first book to address the relationship between poetry and feminist care ethics.  The authors argue that morality, and more specifically, moral progress, is a product of inquiry, imagination, and confronting new experiences. Engaging poetry, therefore, can contribute to the habits necessary for a robust moral life—specifically, caring.  Each chapter offers poems that can provoke considerations of moral relations without explicitly moralizing. The book contributes to valorizing poetry and aesthetic experience as much as it does to reassessing how we think about care ethics. 

Introduction.- Chapter 1: Poetry and Habits of Caring Knowledge.- Chapter 2: Poetry and Habits of Imagination.- Chapter 3: Habits of Encountering Singularity through Performances of Poetry and Caring.-  Chapter 4: Poetry, Care, and Moral Progress.        

Maurice Hamington is Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University, USA.

Ce Rosenow is the Coordinator of the Lane Honors Program at Lane Community College, USA.