Philosophy of Care Groys Boris
Philosophy of Care Groys Boris Retracing the philosophical discussions around careOur current culture is dominated by the ideology of creativity. This ideology legitimises the domination of the…
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Philosophy of Care Groys Boris
Retracing the philosophical discussions around careOur current culture is dominated by the ideology of creativity. 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. One is supposed to create the new and not to care about the things as they are.
The book retraces some episodes of this tradition - beginning with Plato and ending with Alexander Bogdanov through Hegel, Heidegger, Bataille and many others. 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 central question discussed is: who