Philosophy of Care

In this book, authors from a wide interdisciplinary spectrum discuss the issue of care. The book covers both philosophical and therapeutic studies and contains a three-pronged approach to discussing the concepts of care: vulnerability, otherness, and therapy. Above all, it is a matter of combining, in a plural form, a path with multiple theoretical and conceptual bifurcations, but which always point to an observation of society from the perspective of human vulnerability.

Introduction. - Part I - CARE AND VULNERABILITY. - Chapter 1 Care: A New Arrival in the History of Philosophy? . - Chapter 2 From an anthropology of vulnerability to the ethics of care. - Chapter 3 The Circles of Care a Stoic Approach. - Chapter 4 The relation between care and despair, according to Kierkegaard. - Part II - CARE AND ECONOMY. - Chapter 5 Care Ethics and the Economy. - Chapter 6 Welfare, care and human economy in the theory of Wilhelm Röpke. - Chapter 7 Time, Space and Care. - Part III - CARE AND OTHERNESS. - Chapter 8 (Mis)understanding in Plato s Euthydemus. - Chapter 9 The Care of Others in Marcus Aurelius Meditations. - Chapter 10 Care and compassion: a Buddhist contribution to the philosophy of care. - Chapter 11 Care in the Protection of the Patriarchal Family According to Francisco de Vitoria' s ' De Restitutione' . - Chapter 12 Care: a virtue among virtues. - Chapter 13 On Women: an analysis about the status of women in Denis Diderot s theory of Enlightenment. - Part IV - CARE AND THE SELF. - Chapter 14 Care of the self: the opposition between and in Plato s Laws. - Chapter 15 Cura personalis: The Care of the Person and the Roots of Jesuit Pedagogy. - Chapter 16 From Charity to the Care of the Self: Thomas Browne s Religio Medici. - Chapter 17 Philosophy of Care and the Bildungsroman: Words and Facts in Goethe s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. - Chapter 18 Care of oneself and the psychologycal clinic: kierkegaardian contributions. - Part V - CARE AND THERAPY. - Chapter 19 Acedia and its care. - Chapter 20 The different suffering modalities, from Paul Ricoeur s text «Suffering is not the pain» and its relevance in the non-conventional therapies. - Chapter 21 The place of the experience of illness in the understanding of disease: Medical discourse and subjectivity. - Chapter 22 Take care of your mind: a short discussion between clinical hypnosis and philosophy of mind. - Index.