Main description:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Joaquim Braga and Mario Santiago de Carvalho

I - CARE AND VULNERABILITY

1 - Jean-Philippe Pierron

Care: A New Arrival in the History of Philosophy?

2 - Joao Maria Andre

From an anthropology of vulnerability to the ethics of care

3 - Mario Jorge de Carvalho

The Circles of Care - a Stoic Approach

4 - Luis Mendes

The relation between care and despair, according to Kierkegaard

II - CARE AND ECONOMY

5 - Virginia Held

Care Ethics and the Economy

6 - Jeronimo Molina Cano & Jesus A. Guillamon Ayala

Welfare, care and human economy in the theory of Wilhelm Roepke

7 - Joaquim Braga

Time, Space and Care

III - CARE AND OTHERNESS

8 - Fabio Serranito

(Mis)understanding (care for virtue) in Plato's Euthydemus

9 - Helder Telo

The Care of Others in Marcus Aurelius' Meditations

10 - Thierry Meynard

Care and compassion: a Buddhist contribution to the philosophy of care

11 - Maria Camps

Care in the Protection of the Patriarchal Family According to Francisco de Vitoria's 'De Restitutione'

12 - Jose Beato

Care: a virtue among virtues

13 - Fabiana Tamizari

On Women: an analysis about the status of women in Denis Diderot's theory of Enlightenment

IV - CARE AND THE SELF

14 - Samuel Oliveira

Care of the Self: The opposition between "lover of self" ( ) and "excessive love of self" ( ) in Plato's Laws

15 - Cristiano Casalini

Cura personalis: The Care of the Person and the Roots of Jesuit Pedagogy

16 - Simone Guidi

From Charity to the Care of the Self: Thomas Browne's Religio Medici

17 - Laura Madella

Philosophy of Care and the Bildungsroman: Words and Facts in Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre

18 - Myriam Moreira Protasio

Care of oneself and the psychologycal clinic: kierkegaardian contributions

V - CARE AND THERAPY

19 - Claudio Carvalho

Acedia and its care 20 - Catarina Rebelo

The different suffering modalities, from Paul Ricoeur's text "Suffering is not the pain" and its relevance in the non-conventional therapies

21 - Amanda Barros Pereira Palmeira & Rodrigo Barros Gewehr

The place of the experience of illness in the understanding of disease: Medical discourse and subjectivity

22 - Paulo Alexandre e Castro

Take care of your mind: a short discussion between clinical hypnosis and philosophy of mind

Index