Criticism and Compassion: The Ethics and Politics of Claudia Card

ROBIN S. DILLON is the William Wilson Selfridge Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Ethics at Lehigh University. She writes on self-respect - to which Claudia Card introduced her - and related concepts, including respect, arrogance, humility, self-forgiveness, and self-esteem. She has also published numerous articles on Kantian ethics, feminist ethics, and virtue and vice. ARMEN T. MARSOOBIAN is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University and Editor-in-Chief of Metaphilosophy. He has taught as a visiting professor at Columbia University. He has lectured and published extensively on topics in American philosophy, aesthetics, moral philosophy, and genocide studies. He has edited five books, including The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy and Genocide's Aftermath: Responsibility and Repair with Claudia Card. His award-winning book Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia is based upon extensive research about his family, the Dildilians, who were accomplished photographers in the Ottoman Empire. Exhibitions of their photography were mounted in Turkey, Armenia, Great Britain, and the United States.

• Notes on Contributors viiIntroduction 1ARMEN T. MARSOOBIAN AND ROBIN S. DILLONPart One: War, Genocide, and Evil 111 Rape as a Weapon of War 13CLAUDIA CARD2 Addendum to “Rape as a Weapon of War” 27CLAUDIA CARD3 Stoicism, Evil, and the Possibility of Morality 31CLAUDIA CARD4 Women, Evil, and Gray Zones 41CLAUDIA CARD5 Genocide and Social Death 61CLAUDIA CARD6 The Paradox of Genocidal Rape Aimed at Enforced Pregnancy 79CLAUDIA CARD7 Surviving Long-Term Mass Atrocities 93CLAUDIA CARD8 Perpetrators and Social Death: A Cautionary Tale 113LYNNE TIRRELL9 Claudia Card’s Concept of Social Death: A New Way of Looking at Genocide 133JAMES SNOW10 Surviving Evils and the Problem of Agency: An Essay Inspired by the Work of Claudia Card 153DIANA TIETJENS MEYERS11 Institutional Evils, Culpable Complicity, and Duties to Engage in Moral Repair 171ELIANA PECK AND ELLEN K. FEDERPart Two: Feminist Ethical Theory and Its Applications 19312 Against Marriage and Motherhood 195CLAUDIA CARD13 Gay Divorce: Thoughts on the Legal Regulation of Marriage 219CLAUDIA CARD14 Challenges of Global and Local Misogyny 235CLAUDIA CARD15 Taking Pride in Being Bad 253CLAUDIA CARD16 Hate Crime Legislation Reconsidered 269MARCIA BARON17 Misplaced Gratitude and the Ethics of Oppression 289ROBIN MAY SCHOTT18 The Challenges of Extreme Moral Stress: Claudia Card’s Contributions to the Formation of Nonideal Ethical Theory 303KATHRYN J. NORLOCK19 Radical Moral Imagination and Moral Luck 319MAVIS BISS20 The American Girl: Playing with the Wrong Dollie? 331VICTORIA DAVIONIndex 345