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 Libros
Eva Feder Kittay es una filósofa destacada cuyo trabajo profundiza en cuestiones de filosofía moral, justicia y desigualdad. Investiga cómo se sitúan los individuos, particularmente aquellos con dependencias y diferencias cognitivas, dentro de la sociedad y qué obligaciones éticas tenemos hacia ellos. Sus análisis iluminan las complejidades de la dependencia, enfatizando la necesidad de estructuras sociales y marcos morales más inclusivos. Kittay desafía las suposiciones filosóficas tradicionales, ofreciendo una perspectiva poderosa para construir un mundo más equitativo y compasivo.
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.
