A Careful Poetics: Caring Imagination, Caring Habits, and Haiku

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Juxtapositions

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2017

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This article contributes to the philosophical discourse of care studies and the growing interest in an aesthetic approach to care. Care ethics is a relational approach to morality first identified in the 1980s in the work of feminist theorists and today enjoys a wide academic discussion in philosophy, political theory, education theory, and medical ethics. Through a consideration of the embodied aspects of care as well as an analysis of several representative haiku, the authors argue that haiku supports the development of care capacities because it engages a caring imagination, helps people develop caring knowledge, and potentially encourages caring behavior.

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copyright © 2017 by The Haiku Foundation.

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http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/19477

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