Martin Robb
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jul
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And you have a number of chapters in which you engage with debates about US welfare and social policy in the late nineteen nineties when you were writing.
I wonder how your ideas might have changed or developed since then and what kinds of social policies you now think are needed to support care.
If you were writing the book today, what kind of policies would you be advocac advocating?
So maybe a more devolved vision of how
comm th how society might support care, but maybe there's still a role for the state to support those communities.
to facilitate them their work.
Yeah.
As you say, the specifics are gonna take a lot of working out.
And the economics of it as well, yeah.
That should be a role of the economic system to talk about this.
Um so so Love's Labour includes two chapters in which you write beautifully and movingly about your personal experience as the mother of Sasha, reflecting on how that experiences informed your thinking.
about philosophy and and life generally, and you write, we didn't yet realise how much you would teach us, but we already knew we'd learned something.
That which we believed, we valued, we thought was at the center of humanity, the capacity for thought, for reason was not it at all.
And in a way your more recent book, Lo Lessons from My Daughter, takes that statement as a starting point and expands on it.
So what what made you what led you to write the second book twenty years on from the publication of Love's Labour?
Now, like like the earlier book, um, Lessons from My Daughter is a a mixture of the personal and the philosophical.
But perhaps the relationship between the two is more intertwined than in the earlier book.
It's introduced by a a quite beautiful personal reflection by Susan J.
Bryson, describing her own experience of getting to know Sessha and what she's learned from that relationship.
But as in the earlier book, the chapters sort of alternate between philosophical argument and more personal reflections, with a much closer focus on disability and on the physical philosophical and ethical implications of disability, though there's a final circling back to care ethics, and you end with a a meditation on your daughter's body as a window to her soul.
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