Abstract:

Care is work, an attitude toward others, and an ethical ideal. The intimate and necessary labor required to sustain those who are dependent, it is a limited resource unjustly extracted from women and people of color. Care ethics provides robust arguments for recognizing human interdependency with and accountability to the environments in which we are embedded, however it often reaches an impasse when forced to determine hierarchies of need, especially when they expand their consideration to nonhuman lives. This essay takes those places of confounding blockage as an invitation to explore the messier and morally ambiguous domain of the arts. It considers works of literature, visual, and performance art that engage questions about care beyond the human, attempting to navigate with and through the impasses that so trouble moral philosophers. Thought provoking and deeply imperfect, these imaginative works attempt to expand the contours of dignified and just interspecies care but also to generate new perspective on the places where that project fails.

摘要：

关怀是工作，对他人的态度和道德理想。维持被抚养者所需的亲密而必要的劳动，这是一种有限的资源，是不公正地从妇女和有色人种中提取出来的。护理伦理为确认人类与我们所处环境的相互依赖性和责任性提供了有力的论据，但是，当被迫确定需求等级时，尤其是当他们将考虑范围扩展到非人类生活时，它常常会陷入僵局。本文将那些令人困惑的障碍物的位置邀请为探索艺术中更混乱和道德上模棱两可的领域的邀请。它考虑了文学，视觉和表演艺术方面的作品，这些作品涉及人类以外的关怀问题，试图克服和解决那些困扰道德哲学家的僵局。