Care of the World: Fear, Responsibility and Justice in the Global Age (Studies in Global Justice #11)
Philosophy, Psychology, General non-fiction
Summary
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