Criticism and Compassion – The Ethics and Politics of Claudia Card

Criticism and Compassion: The Ethics and Politics of Claudia Card offers a unique perspective on the range of issues explored by Card during her distinguished career in philosophy.

Investigates her work as an early leader in the development of feminist philosophy, challenging many preconceptions about the society’s norms regarding gender, marriage, and motherhoodCrossing many disciplinary boundaries, her concept of social death has come to play a significant role in multidisciplinary field of genocide studiesThis volume combines many of Claudia Card’s important essays with recently commissioned essays by leading philosophers whose work has been influenced by CardThe full scope of Card’s philosophy is presented here - both in her own words and those of her critics and interpreters