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Joan Tronto

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Joan Tronto · Philosophy & Social Sciences

What

Political theorist of the ethics of care; Lippincott Award (2023)

When

1952

Where

United States

Biography

Joan Tronto is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Political theorist of the ethics of care; Lippincott Award (2023)

How & why

Tronto is an American political theorist whose book 'Moral Boundaries' (1993) placed the ethics of care at the center of democratic politics, and she received the 2023 Benjamin E. Lippincott Award for a work of enduring importance. She appears in Jinfo.org's compilation of Jewish political scientists; her Jewish background is not detailed in mainstream biographical sources.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the APSA Lippincott & Madison Awards and the Skytte Prize

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Political theorist of the ethics of care; Lippincott Award (2023)

1993

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the APSA Lippincott & Madison Awards and the Skytte Prize