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Norms and Values: Essays on the Work of Virginia Held
Virginia Held, best known for her landmark book Rights and Goods, has made an indelible mark on the fields of ethics, feminist philosophy, and social and political thought. Her impact on a generation of feminist thinkers is unrivaled and she has been at the forfront of discussions about the way in which an ethic of care can affect social and political matters. These new essays by leading contemporary philosophers range over all of these areas. While each stands alone, the essays together demonstrate the lasting value of Held's work to the field. Includes an afterword by Held.
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Norms and Values: Essays on the Work of Virginia Held
Virginia Held, best known for her landmark book Rights and Goods, has made an indelible mark on the fields of ethics, feminist philosophy, and social and political thought. Her impact on a generation of feminist thinkers is unrivaled and she has been at the forfront of discussions about the way in which an ethic of care can affect social and political matters. These new essays by leading contemporary philosophers range over all of these areas. While each stands alone, the essays together demonstrate the lasting value of Held's work to the field. Includes an afterword by Held.
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Norms and Values: Essays on the Work of Virginia Held

Norms and Values: Essays on the Work of Virginia Held

Overview

Virginia Held, best known for her landmark book Rights and Goods, has made an indelible mark on the fields of ethics, feminist philosophy, and social and political thought. Her impact on a generation of feminist thinkers is unrivaled and she has been at the forfront of discussions about the way in which an ethic of care can affect social and political matters. These new essays by leading contemporary philosophers range over all of these areas. While each stands alone, the essays together demonstrate the lasting value of Held's work to the field. Includes an afterword by Held.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780847684915
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 07/09/1998
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Joram G. Haber is assistant professor of philosophy at Bergen Community College. Among his books are Forgiveness and Absolutism and Its Consequentialist Critics. Mark S. Halfon is assistant professor of philosophy at Nassau Community College and the author of Integrity: A Philosophical Inquiry.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Part 2 I. Care and Morality
Chapter 3 Care as Labor and Relationship
Chapter 4 Caring in the Balance
Chapter 5 Feminism, Autonomy, and Emotion
Part 6 II. Feminism and Social Relations
Chapter 7 Tropes of Social Relations and the Problem of Tropisms in Figurative Discourse
Chapter 8 Feminist Morality and Social Policy
Chapter 9 Cultural Justice and the Limits of Difference
Chapter 10 Toward a Postpatriarchal Society
Part 11 III. Norms, Values, and Theory
Chapter 12 A Pluralistic Model of Moral Justification
Chapter 13 Living with Evils
Chapter 14 Forgiveness and Feminism
Part 15 IV. Family and Race
Chapter 16 Paternity and Commitment
Chapter 17 On the Expressivity and Ethics of Selective Abortion for Disability: Conversations with My Son
Chapter 18 "Racial Integration" Revisited
Part 19 V. Historical Reevaluations
Chapter 20 Damaris Cudworth Masham: A Learned Lady of the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 21 Does Kant's Ethics Ignore Relations between Persons?
Chapter 22 Justice and Modes of Production: Allen Wood's "The Marxian Critique of Justice" Revisited
Chapter 23 Afterword
Chapter 24 Bibliography of the Writings of Virginia Held
Chapter 25 Index
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