Embodied Care by Maurice Hamington HARDBACK 9780252029288

Embodied CareJane Addams, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Feminist Ethics\nAuthor(s): Maurice Hamington\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252029288, 978-0252029288\nSynopsis\nUntil now, ethicists have said little about the body, limiting their comments on it to remarks made in passing or, at best, devoting a chapter to the subject. Embodied Care is the first work to argue for the body's centrality to care ethics, doing so by analyzing our corporeality at the phenomenological level. It develops the idea that our bodies are central to our morality, paying particular attention to the ways we come to care for one another.\n Hamington's argues that human bodies are \""built to care\""; as a result, embodiment must be recognized as a central factor in moral consideration. He takes the reader on an exciting journey from modern care ethics to Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of the body and then to Jane Addams's .