Emotions and Care: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

This volume explores the connections between emotions and

care-understood here as a practice, an ethical ideal and a moral

disposition. Ever since its origins in the early 1980s, the ethics of

care has been built on the presupposition that there are intimate links

between our emotional lives and care. Nonetheless, relatively little

scholarship has been devoted to the close study of these connections or

to an exploration of the “darker’ emotions that can often accompany

care. This edited volume hopes to address this relative neglect in the

literature by offering interdisciplinary perspectives on the matter.

Penned by scholars from different parts of the world, the essays in this

volume seek to bring greater conceptual articulacy into our discussions

of the ways emotions can motivate or thwart care. Some contributors also

offer critical assessments of care ethics scholarship-discussing, for

instance, the feminist stakes in the debate over the significance of

emotions for care. Other contributions propose novel ways of exploring

the ties between emotions and care by bringing new voices and authors

into the debate-mostly from phenomenological, literary and

anthropological circles.

This collection includes contributions from: Monika Betzler, Caterina

Botti, Sophie Bourgault, Fabienne Brugere, Guido Cusinato, Luigina

Mortari, Inge van Nistelrooij, Patricia Paperman, Elena Pulcini,

Vincenzo Sorrentino, and Rossana Trifiletti.