Sorge/Care

If we look around us, we see necessities that require care everywhere. How is care anchored in being human? What are the sources that feed our ability to care? Instead of assuming that care is an ethical question of should or must, this book shows why we care, why we can care and why we want to care. For this purpose, the ideas of contemporary authors from anthropology and philosophy (such as J. Butler, D. Haraway, P. Sloterdijk, G. Bataille, B. Latour, J. L. Nancy, L. Irigaray, J. Baudrillard) are brought together, and their commonalities and differences are pointed out. Current social references to politics, psychosomatics/psychology and art further enrich the topic.

Dr. med. Dr. phil. Martin Dornberg is the head of the Centre for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy in the medical centre at St. Josef Hospital in Freiburg and head of the psychosomatic/psychotherapy consultation service at Loretto Hospital. Since 1989 he has been a lecturer in philosophy and interdisciplinary anthropology as well as gender studies at the University of Freiburg.