{"product_id":"philosophy-of-care-9781839764929","title":"Philosophy of Care","description":"\u003cb\u003eRetracing the philosophical discussions around care\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOur 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoris Groys (born 1947) is Professor of the Faculty of Art and Sciences, New York University, and Professor of Philosophy and Art History, European Graduate Center, Saas Fee, Switzerland. He is the author of the books: \u003ci\u003eArt Power\u003c\/i\u003e. MIT Press. Cambridge Ma. 2008; \u003ci\u003eAn Introduction to Antiphilosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, Verso, 2012; \u003ci\u003eUnder Suspicion. A Phenomenology of Media\u003c\/i\u003e. Columbia University Press 2012; \u003ci\u003eOn the New\u003c\/i\u003e, Verso, 2014; \u003ci\u003eIn the Flow\u003c\/i\u003e. Verso, London 2016; \u003ci\u003eParticular Cases\u003c\/i\u003e, Sternberg Press, Berlin.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50678966911250,"sku":"9781839764929","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_529fbce1-5a09-4168-829c-d8883a9a922e.jpg?v=1733897964","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/philosophy-of-care-9781839764929","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}