While graduating as a student in Humanistic Studies and Political Philosophy, Sylwin Cornielje was charmed by the critical studies, that care ethics engaged in. By any means, these studies involve the question of what ‘a good society’ means from a variety of different disciplines and outlooks. As Sylwin Cornielje describes it, care ethics – more specifically the way in which he came to learn of it – at that time practiced political theory, including a small ethical theory. Continue reading On The Art of Disguising Suffering
Category Archives: Books
We aim to present new and interesting books relevant to the field of ethics of care.
Care as a political category
While presenting a short outline in his discussion of Fabienne Brugère’s book Care Ethics. The Introduction of Care as Political Category, editor Sylwin Cornielje elaborates also two themes that Brugère leaves open, as he believes these matters necessarily need to be clarified in order for care to become a convincing ground for political ethics in late modern society. Continue reading Care as a political category
A.I. doesn’t care – Reading Vanessa Nurock ‘Care in an Era of New Technologies and Artificial Intelligence’.
In January 2025 French philosopher Vanessa Nurock published her book Care in an Era of New Technologies and Artificial Intelligence. Relationships in a Connected World with Peeters Publishers, Louvain (Belgium). Vanessa Nurock explores the question whether the rise of artificial intelligence might not only change our practical approach to care, but also the very fabric of our moral and emotional relationships.
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Learning from my daughter
Eva Feder Kittay’s book, Learning from My Daughter: The Value and Care of Disabled Minds, is a thought-provoking book on humility, choosing children, and the place of care in philosophy and disability. Continue reading Learning from my daughter
Politics of the Ordinary – Care, Ethics and Forms of Life
The 11th volume in the Peeters Ethics of Care series is written by Sandra Laugier: Politics of the Ordinary – Care, Ethics and Forms of Life (2020). In the spring of 2019, our editors Tessa Smorenburg and Madzy Dekema, travelled to Paris (FR) to interview her about the book which was also the cornerstone of her key note speech in this year’s conference of the Care Ethics Research Consortium. Her plea is to use ordinary language philosophy as a basis for a re-definition of care ethics and to draw attention to the ordinary life as the focus of care in moral expression.
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In A Different Voice: Act Two
In 2018, Carol Gilligan revitalized her In a Different Voice with two co-authored books about the persistence of patriarchy locking out democracy and relational care. Continue reading In A Different Voice: Act Two