Daniel Engster is Professor in the Hobby School of Public Affairs and Associate Director of the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership. His research focuses on care ethics, relational egalitarianism, and public policy. His books include The Heart of Justice: Care Ethics and Political Theory; Justice, Care, and the Welfare State; and Care Ethics and Political Theory.

Steven Steyl is Lecturer in Bioethics at the University of Notre Dame Australia and Honorary Academic at the University of Auckland. His research lies mainly in the areas of normative ethics, applied ethics, and political theory, and has appeared in a variety of journals and edited volumes including The Philosophical Quarterly, Hypatia, and Care Ethics, Religion, and Spiritual Traditions (Peeters, 2022).

Introduction. Part I: Situating Care Ethics 1. The Ethics of Care as a Moral Theory 2. The Avoidance of Care: On the Moral Entwinement between Feminist Care Ethics and Feminist Critical Theory 3. Care Ethics as an Anti-Theory Moral Theory 4. The Novelty of Care Ethics Part II: Expanding and Enriching Care Ethics 5. The Continued Relevance of Care Ethics to Care Theory 6. Care Ethics and Moral Principles 7. The Grounds and Scope of Caring Obligations 8. Grounding Care: On Commitment, Normative Justification, and the Relational Regulative Ideal in Noddings' Caring 9. Levinas and the Ontological Foundations of Intergenerational Care Ethics Part III: Beyond Traditional Moral Theory 10. An Ethics of Not-Knowing: Care, Epistemic Vulnerability, and Radical Hope 11. Care and Moral Theory 12. Ethics Writ Large: Care Theory as a Process Moral Aesthetic 13. The Poetics of Care-Based Knowing: Phulkari, Motherhood and a Transnational Approach to Culturally Safe Care14. Conclusion: Care Ethics: Does This Change Everything?