Connected Lives: Human Nature and an Ethics of Care

by Ruth E. Groenhout

Book Overview

Connected Lives examines the account of human nature that is implicit in an ethics of care, a picture of human lives that emphasizes interdependency, embodiment, and social connectedness. The book makes important connections to the picture of human life found in theorists of love such as St. Augustine and Emmanuel Levinas, and shows that when care theory is articulated clearly, it provides resources for thinking through some of the difficult...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074251496X
• ISBN13: 9780742514966
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"