Care, Narrativity, and the Nature of Disponibilité
This paper attempts to make more explicit the relationship between narrativity and feminist care ethics. The central concern is the way in which narrativity carries the semantic load that some accounts of feminist care ethics imply but leave hanging. In so doing, some feminist theorists of care-base...
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| description | This paper attempts to make more explicit the relationship between narrativity and feminist care ethics. The central concern is the way in which narrativity carries the semantic load that some accounts of feminist care ethics imply but leave hanging. In so doing, some feminist theorists of care-based ethics then undervalue the major contribution that narrativity provides to care ethics: it carries the semantic load that is essential to the best care. In this article, I defend the narrative as the central medium though which we make sense of and communicate our lives and their attendant hopes and cares. More than just working with the narrative of the cared-for, caring is about investing in the narrative of the cared-for in order to meet the needs of this cared-for and how this narrative might turn out. I will further demonstrate how the attitude of caring or investing in a narrative would amount to what Gabriel Marcel has described as the attitude of disponibilité. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/821232020-03-07T12:10:37Z Care, Narrativity, and the Nature of Disponibilité Chen, Melvin School of Humanities and Social Sciences narrativity care ethics This paper attempts to make more explicit the relationship between narrativity and feminist care ethics. The central concern is the way in which narrativity carries the semantic load that some accounts of feminist care ethics imply but leave hanging. In so doing, some feminist theorists of care-based ethics then undervalue the major contribution that narrativity provides to care ethics: it carries the semantic load that is essential to the best care. In this article, I defend the narrative as the central medium though which we make sense of and communicate our lives and their attendant hopes and cares. More than just working with the narrative of the cared-for, caring is about investing in the narrative of the cared-for in order to meet the needs of this cared-for and how this narrative might turn out. I will further demonstrate how the attitude of caring or investing in a narrative would amount to what Gabriel Marcel has described as the attitude of disponibilité. 2016-08-10T03:17:19Z 2019-12-06T14:47:07Z 2016-08-10T03:17:19Z 2019-12-06T14:47:07Z 2015 Journal Article Chen, M. (2015). Care, Narrativity, and the Nature of Disponibilité. Hypatia, 30(4), 778-793. 0887-5367 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82123 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41109 10.1111/hypa.12177 en Hypatia © 2015 Hypatia, Inc. |
| spellingShingle | narrativity care ethics Chen, Melvin Care, Narrativity, and the Nature of Disponibilité |
| title | Care, Narrativity, and the Nature of
Disponibilité |
| title_full | Care, Narrativity, and the Nature of
Disponibilité |
| title_fullStr | Care, Narrativity, and the Nature of
Disponibilité |
| title_full_unstemmed | Care, Narrativity, and the Nature of
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| title_short | Care, Narrativity, and the Nature of
Disponibilité |
| title_sort | care narrativity and the nature of disponibilite |
| topic | narrativity care ethics |
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