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- Connects fear, responsibility and care
- Proposes an very original Philosophy of the global age
- Deals with a nexus neglected by contemporary reflection
Part of the book series: Studies in Global Justice (JUST, volume 11)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Pathologies of the Global Age: Unlimited Individualism, Endogamous Communitarianism
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Front Matter
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Pathologies of Feeling: The Metamorphosis of Fear in the Global Age
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Front Matter
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Responsibility and Care of the World
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Front Matter
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Care and Justice
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book proposes a philosophy of care in a global age. It discusses the distinguishing and opposing pathologies produced by globalization: unlimited individualism or self-obsession, manifested as (Promethean) omnipotence and (narcissistic) indifference, and endogamous communitarianism or an ‘us’-obsession that results in conflict and violence. The polarization between a lack and an excess of pathos is reflected in the distorted forms taken on by fear. The book advocates a metamorphosis of fear, which may restore in the subject an awareness of vulnerability and become the precondition for moral action. Such awareness and the recognition of the condition of contamination caused by the other’s unavoidable presence teach us to fear for rather than be afraid of. Fear for the world means care of the world, and care, understood as concern and solicitude, is a new notion of responsibility, in which the stress is shifted to a relational subject capable of responding to and taking care of the other. From a global perspective, the proposed vision of care also compels us to explore a new paradigm of justice.
Keywords
- Anxiety
- Care
- Care of the World
- Community
- Conflict
- Difference
- Endogamic Communitaianism
- Endogamic Communitarianism
- Excess of Pathos
- Fear
- Global Fear
- Global Risks
- Global Vulnerability
- Humanity
- Identity
- Indifference
- Individualism
- Metamorphosis of Fear
- Modernity
- Modernity and Fear
- Moral Philosophy
- Narcissus
- Omnipotence
- Political Philosophy
- Productive Fear
- Prometheus
- Psychology / Psychoanalysis
- Reciprocal Fear
- Repsonsibility
- Social Philosophy
- Society
- Sociology
- Solidaristic Recognition
- The Global Age
- Unlimited Individualism
- Victims
- Violence
- Vulnerability
- Vulnerable Humanity
Reviews
“This welcome and refreshing shift opens up a rich philosophical framework … . Care of the World: Fear, Responsibility and Justice in the Global Age is a masterful work. Pulcini carefully builds her argument, mining the rich resources of care ethics and social and political philosophy. … Readers will find in Pulcini’s work not only a philosophical guide for reconceiving our sociality but also a blueprint for transforming our very relationship to the globalized world.” (Antonio Calcagno, Symposium, c-scp.org, August 06, 2019)
From the reviews:
“Pulcini’s volume offers a needed integration of historical, philosophical, psychological, and moral knowledge; in doing so, it constitutes a substantive platform for discussing, exploring, and advancing thought and action in our global age. … required reading for college and university freshmen as a framework or foundation for their subsequent studies. I recommend the volume. It is an essential resource for our times.” (Anthony J. Marsella, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 58 (26), June, 2013)Authors and Affiliations
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Dipartimento di Filosofia, Universita’ Degli Studi Di Firenze, Firenze, Florence, Italy
Elena Pulcini
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Care of the World
Book Subtitle: Fear, Responsibility and Justice in the Global Age
Authors: Elena Pulcini
Series Title: Studies in Global Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4482-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4481-3Published: 21 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7465-0Published: 26 August 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4482-0Published: 20 August 2012
Series ISSN: 1871-0409
Series E-ISSN: 1871-1456
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 272
Topics: Political Philosophy, Sociology, general, Personality and Social Psychology