Caring to Know: Comparative Care Ethics, Feminist Epistemology, and the Mahabharata by Dalmiya, Vrinda
Caring to Know: Comparative Care Ethics, Feminist Epistemology, and the Mahabharata by Dalmiya, Vrinda

Caring to Know: Comparative Care Ethics, Feminist Epistemology, and the Mahabharata

As a venture in the emerging field of comparative feminist philosophy, this work goes against the current...
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Author: Vrinda Dalmiya
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Caring to Know: Comparative Care Ethics, Feminist Epistemology, and the Mahabharata by Dalmiya, Vrinda

Caring to Know: Comparative Care Ethics, Feminist Epistemology, and the Mahabharata

$204.94
Caring to Know: Comparative Care Ethics, Feminist Epistemology, and the Mahabharata by Dalmiya, Vrinda

Caring to Know: Comparative Care Ethics, Feminist Epistemology, and the Mahabharata

$204.94
Author: Vrinda Dalmiya
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
As a venture in the emerging field of comparative feminist philosophy, this work goes against the current trend of considering caring and knowing as independent of each other. It argues for what can be called a care-based epistemology modelled on the now-familiar care ethics. Using critical insights from the Mahabharata, the book proposes that knowing and caring can be fruitfully theorized together, while keeping the argument firmly rooted in mainstream Anglo-Western virtue epistemology. What emerges is a feminist epistemology that uses the methods of creative comparative philosophy to come up with a concept of relational humility as the fulcrum of a new theory of knowing.

On the one hand, the epistemic and ethical paradigms given in the Mahābhārata are interrogated though the political lens of contemporary feminist theory. On the other, the scope of traditional care ethics and virtue epistemology is broadened through a dialogue with an epics narrative meditations on living well and knowing well in a very different context. Such a cross-cultural exploration gives us a robust conception of a good knower who is both an ethical agent as well as ready to make interventions in various forms of epistemic injustices.


Author: Vrinda Dalmiya
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/31/2016
Pages: 340
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780199464760

About the Author

Vrinda Dalmiya, Faculty in the Department of Philosophy, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA.

Vrinda Dalmiya is faculty in the Department of Philosophy, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA.



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