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 is a distinguished philosopher whose work delves into profound questions of moral philosophy, justice, and inequality. She investigates how individuals, particularly those with dependencies and cognitive differences, are situated within society and what ethical obligations we owe them. Her analyses illuminate the complexities of dependency, emphasizing the need for more inclusive social structures and moral frameworks. Kittay challenges traditional philosophical assumptions, offering a powerful perspective on building a more equitable and compassionate world.
- 2019
- 2002
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.
- 1990
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.
