Vulnerable responsibility

Small vices for caregivers

Lategan, Laetus O.K, Vanlaere, Linus, Burggraeve, Roger

• Publisher: UJ Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781928424161
• eBook ISBN: 9781928424178
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy

The authors have developed the ethical imagination inviting a sense of "otherness" towards the vulnerable self, rebounding care for the other as a way to understand our everyday neurotic (normal) tendency of small vices as the propensity and possibility for responsibility towards the other. The authors, inviting the reader into troublesome feelings such as laziness and anger, bring a Levinasian horizon into focus, so that even in the midst of laziness, there remains the small goodness to set the self free to care for the other, meeting the demands, challenges, hesitation, shuddering, tension and shocks of such alterity, of living "otherwise".

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Imprint Page
• Contents
• Introduction - Anthem for ‘lost souls’
• Chapter 1: What do I care about the other? Antipathy as leverage for good care
• Chapter 2: Laziness? What laziness?Caregivers also have a right to be lazy
• Chapter 3: “I’m only human”Mediocrity as a stimulus for good-enough care
• Chapter 4: “I don’t always say what I think” Hypocrisy as a mediator of care that remains human
• Chapter 5: “I sometimes say exactly what I am thinking”Anger: keeping committed care on the boil
• Chapter 6: “I am not doingit this way any longer ”Disobedience as a ‘virtuous vice’
• Chapter 7: CARE ETHICS IN THE WAKE OF EMMANUEL LEVINAS. A Philosophical Postscript
• Back Cover