TY - BOOK ID - 555972 TI - Caring Democracy PY - 2013 SN - 9780814782774 9780814782781 9780814770450 9780814770344 0814782779 0814782787 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Political sociology KW - United States KW - 601.3 KW - 603.1 KW - Democratie KW - gezondheidszorg KW - zorgethiek KW - politieke filosofie KW - Ethiek en gezondheid KW - Filosofie en kritiek KW - Medische ethiek KW - 32 KW - Caring KW - Democracy KW - Equality KW - Social justice KW - Justice KW - Egalitarianism KW - Inequality KW - Social equality KW - Social inequality KW - Political science KW - Sociology KW - Liberty KW - Self-government KW - Representative government and representation KW - Republics KW - Conduct of life KW - Empathy KW - Helping behavior KW - Political philosophy. Social philosophy KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:555972 AB - Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people's time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves. At the same time, political involvement in the United States is at an all-time low, and although political life should help us to care better, people see caring as unsupported by public life and deem the concerns of politics as remote from their lives. Caring Democracy argues that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective. The idea that production and economic life are the most important political and human concerns ignores the reality that caring, for ourselves and others, should be the highest value that shapes how we view the economy, politics, and institutions such as schools and the family. Care is at the center of our human lives, but Tronto argues it is currently too far removed from the concerns of politics. Caring Democracy traces the reasons for this disconnection and argues for the need to make care, not economics, the central concern of democratic political life. ER -