A Reply to Clark Wolf, Elizabeth Edenberg, and Helga Varden

Abstract

In this article, I respond to symposium articles by Clark Wolf, Elizabeth Edenberg, and Helga Varden. With shared sympathies for anti-oppression liberalism and social contract theory, they urge me to develop the theory of liberal dependency care (LDC) in new directions - respectively, as a form of subject-centered justice, with a political liberal justification, and with a Kantian foundation for 'private right.' I respond by explicating the inclusivity that is built into the arrow of care map and the variety of contract theory I advance. Furthermore, I insist that anti-oppression liberalism need not formulate its claims in political liberal terms.