Sophie Bourgault Libri Migliori da leggere e consigliati

The ethics of hospitality, gift and care have gained much currency over the last few years on both sides of the Atlantic. They seek, each in their own way, to reflect on some of the most pressing contemporary ethico-political issues (e.g. the refugee crisis, unremunerated labor in a market economy, precarity, invisibilized care work). The three ethics draw from different disciplinary and theoretical sources. The ethics of hospitality were strongly influenced by the philosophical work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida; the principal source for the ethics of the gift is the anthropological analysis of Marcel Mauss; and the ethics of care have been developed in the wake of American psychologist Carol Gilligan’s work. Despite these different underpinnings, the three ethics nonetheless share several concerns and principles, notably the notion that any theory of the social and the political should be anchored in a relational ontology and in an anthropology of vulnerability. As such, it is surprising to observe that few researchers have explored the affinities between these three paradigms (with the notable exceptions of Elena Pulcini, Philipe Chanial and Jacques Godbout). The main objective of the volume is to address this scholarly gap and to initiate a more explicit interdisciplinary dialogue – in French – between these three ethical paradigms. Another goal is to consider the currency of each of these ethics for reflecting on important contemporary issues. Published in French.

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.