Justice, Care, and Value: A Values-Driven Theory of Care Ethics [Hardcover]

Introduction  1. Values of Care  2. Partiality and Its Moral Limits  3. Toward Caring Socialist Democracies  4. Territorial and Natural Resource Interdependency  5. Intergenerational Care Ethics  References

By interrogating the values of care, Thomas Randalls Justice, Care, and Value addresses the under-examined yet crucial aspect of care ethics: interdependency. The novel approach to exploring partiality, socialist democracies, resource interconnection, and intergenerational care make significant theoretical and applied contributions to the growing care theory literature.

Maurice Hamington, Professor of Philosophy and Affiliate Faculty in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Portland State University

Randall provides a compelling starting point for care theorists to consider three particularly pressing concerns: redistribution and material inequality, territorial and natural resource rights, and obligations to past and future generations. In so doing, he also skillfully demonstrates how and why mainstream moral philosophy would benefit greatly from engaging with a feminist ethics of care, and thereby begins to build meaningful dialogue between these philosophical traditions. I was particularly impressed with Randalls work on how to orient a feminist ethics of care towards questions of intergenerational justice. How can care ethicists think about responsibilities that the living owe to those who have come before and those who are yet to come  and with whom, therefore, no direct relation exists in the first place? Randalls use of imaginal content as that which can ground such responsibilities is innovative and exciting, and further enriches existing scholarship on the significance of imagination as a crucial epistemic resource in and for care theory. As someone whose reseal#*