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.
Eva Feder Kittay Libri
Eva Feder Kittay è una filosofa di spicco il cui lavoro approfondisce questioni fondamentali di filosofia morale, giustizia e disuguaglianza. Indaga su come gli individui, in particolare quelli con dipendenze e differenze cognitive, siano inseriti nella società e quali obblighi etici abbiamo nei loro confronti. Le sue analisi illuminano le complessità della dipendenza, sottolineando la necessità di strutture sociali e quadri morali più inclusivi. Kittay sfida le assunzioni filosofiche tradizionali, offrendo una prospettiva potente per la costruzione di un mondo più equo e compassionevole.
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.
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.
