Infinite Responsibility in the Bedpan
Response Ethics, Care Ethics, and the Phenomenology of Dependency Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8090925 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joel Michael Reynolds (0000-0002-9640-5082, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 779-794 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hypatia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/hypa.12292 |
| OpenAlex | W2523881856 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 29 |
Because Levinas understands ethical response as a response to the radical alterity of the other, he contrasts it with justice, for which alterity becomes a question of equality. Drawing upon the practice of dependency work and the insights of feminist care ethics, I argue that the opposition between responding to another's singularity and leveling it via parity‐based principles is belied in the experience of care. Through a hermeneutic phenomenology of caring for my post‐stroke grandfather, I develop an account of dependency work as a material dialectic of embodied response involving moments of leveling, attention, and interruption. Contra much of response ethics’ and care ethics’ respective literatures, this dialectic suggests that they complement each other in ways that productively illuminate themes of each. I conclude by suggesting that when response and care ethics are thought together through the experience of dependency work, such labors produce finite responsibility with infinite hope
Alterity · Dialectic · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ethics of care · Feminist ethics · Nursing ethics · Phenomenology (philosophy · Political science · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
Moral Prejudices
The Provocation of Levinas
Maternal Thinking
Love’s Labor
Rethinking Care Theory
Feminist, Queer, Crip
Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence
Autrement qu’être ou au-delà de l’essence
Corporeal Vulnerability and the New Humanism
Like a Maternal Body”
Labor as Embodied Practice
Feeding the Hungry Other
Care, Narrativity, and the Nature of Disponibilité
Conceptions of Care
Feminist and Medical Ethics
Unhealthy Disabled
A Fourth Subject Position of Care
Infinitely demanding
In a different voice
Feminist Disability Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |