Care of the World Fear, Responsibility and Justice in the Global Age /

• Main Author: Pulcini, Elena (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Studies in Global Justice, 11
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Political philosophy.; Sociology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Political Philosophy.; Sociology, general.; Personality and Social Psychology.

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’-o...

Table of Contents:

• Translator’s note
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• The ambivalence of globalization
• Part One Pathologies of the Global Age: unlimited individualism, endogamous communitarianism
• Unlimited individualism
• 2. Endogamous communitarianism
• Part Two Pathologies of Feeling: the metamorphosis of fear in the global age
• 1. Modernity and fear
• 2. Risk society: From Fear to Anxiety?
• 3. Spectators and victims: between denial and projection
• Part Three Responsibility and Care of the World
• 1. Actors: relearning to fear
• 2. From fear to care
• 3. A world in common
• Part Four Care and Justice
• 1. Care versus justice?
• 2. The passions of justice
• 3. Beyond justice.-Index.