Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Authors; Permissions; Chapter 1 Introduction; Abstract; Poetry and Ethics; What Is Care Ethics?; Relationality at the Heart of Care Ethics; A Positive Role for Emotion, Particularly Empathy; Deep Caring Engages the Context and Thus Involves Inquiry; Care as a Performance Philosophy; What Hinges Upon the Connection Between Care and Poetry?; Outline of the Book; Knowing and Not Knowing; References; Chapter 2 Poetry and Habits of Caring Knowledge; Abstract; Effective Care as Knowledge Work; Poetry as Knowledge Work

Between Abstract and the Particular KnowledgeTacit Knowledge; Tacit Epistemic Processes in Support of Care Through Poetry; Conclusion: John Dewey and Aesthetic Habits of Caring Knowledge Acquisition; References; Chapter 3 Poetry and Habits of Imagination; Abstract; Imagination; Conceiving a Different State of Affairs; Metaphorical Thinking: The Linchpin of Imagination; Mental Agility: Playfulness, Freedom, and Creativity; Care Ethics and Moments of Imaginative Relevance: Empathy and Action; Conclusion: Imaginative Habits of Empathy and Caring Tact; References

Chapter 4 Habits of Encountering Singularity Through Performances of Poetry and CaringAbstract; Singularity: People and Poems; Poetry, Care, and Performance; The Singularity of Poetry as Attention Training for Caring Disponibilité; Openness as Contributing to Self Authorship; Emergent Moral Normativity?; References; Chapter 5 Care, Poetry, and Moral Progress; Abstract; Is Moral Progress Possible? What Exactly Progresses?; Care Ethics and Moral Progress; Poetry and Caring Moral Progress; Avant-Garde Poetry: Moral Progress Through Challenging Social Norms

Conclusion: Pausing to Hear the Different VoiceReferences; Index