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.
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Eva Feder Kittay est une philosophe éminente dont le travail explore des questions profondes de philosophie morale, de justice et d'inégalité. Elle examine comment les individus, en particulier ceux qui ont des dépendances et des différences cognitives, sont situés au sein de la société et quelles obligations éthiques nous leur devons. Ses analyses éclairent les complexités de la dépendance, soulignant la nécessité de structures sociales et de cadres moraux plus inclusifs. Kittay remet en question les hypothèses philosophiques traditionnelles, offrant une perspective puissante pour la construction d'un monde plus équitable et compatissant.
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.
