Diffracting Posthuman/Feminist New Materialist and Care Ethics: Propositions for Slow Scholarship
21 Seiten
Open Access
Journal:
PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Band 01
Ausgabe 1
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
pp. 121 - 141
Zusammenfassung
This paper considers how using a diffractive methodology to read care ethics through posthuman ethics to put them into conversation with each other may potentially evoke new insights for Slow scholarship in academia. In using a diffractive methodology, the details of one theory or philosophical position (in this case the political ethics of care) are read attentively and with care through another (feminist posthumanism or feminist new materialism), and interference or diffractive patterns emerge in this process. The paper uses these diffractive patterns to generate propositions for doing Slow scholarship in higher education. In this article, philosophers of posthuman and care ethics whose work is predicated on a relational ethics are diffracted through each other to come to new insights into ethical concepts or moral elements – drawn from Joan Tronto’s political ethics of care and Karen Barad’s, Donna Haraway’s, and Vinciane Despret’s feminist new materialist ethics, which are also referred to as posthuman ethics. The paper focuses on ethical concepts that are important in their work and which I consider to be fruitful for engaging in Slow scholarship. In particular, the paper focuses on
Details
- Seiten
- 21
- DOI
- 10.3726/PTIHE.012025.0121
- Open Access
- CC-BY
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2025 (März)
- Schlagworte
- Slow scholarship propositions diffraction posthuman ethics care ethics
- Produktsicherheit
- Peter Lang Group AG