Care, Compassion and Recognition: An Ethical Discussion

Since Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice (1982) theethics of care has developed as a movement of allied thinkers, indifferent continents, who have a shared concern and who reflect onsimilar topics. This shared concern is that care can only be revaluedand take its societal place if existing asymmetrical power relations areunveiled, and if the dignity of care givers and care receivers is betterguaranteed, socially, politically and personally.

In this first volume of a new series leading care ethicists from Europeand the United States

focus on the moral significance of two concepts in the debate that askfor further reflection. In discussion with the work of Axel Honneth onrecognition and the work of Emmanuel Housset on compassion acontribution is made to a reconsideration of recognition and compassionfrom an ethics of care perspective.

This volume contains contributions by Andries Baart, Estelle Ferrarese, Chris Gastmans, Mieke Grypdonck, Emmanuel Housset, Carlo Leget, HildeLindemann, Axel Liégeois, Christa Schnabl, Joan C. Tronto, Annelies vanHeijst, Linus Vanlaere, Frans Vosman and Margaret Urban Walker.