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Philosophy of Care (Hardcover)
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Philosophy of Care (Hardcover)
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List price R270
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Our current culture is dominated by the ideology of creativity. One
is supposed to create the new and not to care about the things as
they are. This ideology legitimises the domination of the "creative
class" over the rest of the population that is predominantly
occupied by forms of care - medical care, child care, agriculture,
industrial maintenance and so on. We have a responsibility to care
for our own bodies, but here again our culture tends to thematize
the bodies of desire and to ignore the bodies of care - ill bodies
in need of self-care and social care. But the discussion of care
has a long philosophical tradition. The book retraces some episodes
of this tradition - beginning with Plato and ending with Alexander
Bogdanov through Hegel, Heidegger, Bataille and many others. The
central question discussed is: who should be the subject of care?
Should I care for myself or trust the others, the system, the
institutions? Here, the concept of the self-care becomes a
revolutionary principle that confronts the individual with the
dominating mechanisms of control.
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