Person
Joan C Tronto
Political ethicist of care, democratic caregiving, and moral boundaries of responsibility.
Why this matters
Tronto widens accountability beyond contract—care as political and interpretive practice.
Related books2 books
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After Certainty
How to Live and Judge When Understanding is not Enough
How to live and judge once explanation reaches its limits—judgment, responsibility, and participation without replacement frameworks.
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The World We Make Together
How Ordinary People, Unequal Power, and Shared Action Shape History
History is collective, but responsibility remains uneven. The World We Make Together follows ordinary objects—a switch, a ballot, a fence, a bowl, a scale—into the institutions and relationships through which people shape public life without becoming either solitary heroes or passive products of structure.
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