This new edition of Eva Feder Kittay's feminist classic, "Love's Labor," examines the need to reshape theories of justice and morality in light of care and dependency, highlighting the shortcomings of policies affecting women in caregiving roles.
Eva Feder Kittay Boeken
Eva Feder Kittay is een vooraanstaand filosofe wiens werk diep ingaat op fundamentele vragen over moraalfilosofie, rechtvaardigheid en ongelijkheid. Zij onderzoekt hoe individuen, in het bijzonder degenen met afhankelijkheden en cognitieve verschillen, binnen de samenleving gepositioneerd zijn en welke ethische verplichtingen wij jegens hen hebben. Haar analyses belichten de complexiteit van afhankelijkheid en benadrukken de noodzaak van inclusievere sociale structuren en morele kaders. Kittay daagt traditionele filosofische aannames uit en biedt een krachtig perspectief voor het opbouwen van een rechtvaardigere en meelevendere wereld.
A detailed revision and refinement of the "semantic theory of metaphor," this book provides a comprehensive philosophical theory explicating metaphor's cognitive contribution. According to the author, metaphor effects a transference of meaning, not between two terms, but between two structured domains of content, or "semantic fields." Semantic fields, construed as necessary to a theory of word-meaning, provide the contrastive and affinitive relations that govern a term's literal use. In a metaphoric use, these relations are projected into a second domain which is thereby reordered with significant cognitive effects. Amply illustrated with sensitive and systematic analyses of metaphors found in literature, philosophy, science, and quotidian language, this book forges a new understanding of the relation between metaphoric and literal meaning.
The essays of this volume consider how acknowledgement of the fact of dependency changes our conceptions of law, political theory, and morality, as well as our very conceptions of self.
