The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other (eBook)

From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation

Daniel Louis Wyche (Autor)

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2025
514 Seiten
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-55712-2 (ISBN)

Infos

What is the relationship between the ethical transformation of the self and the political transformation of the world? This book explores the ways several twentieth-century thinkers can help us relate the "e;care of the self"e; to the "e;care of the other,"e; tracing their accounts of how and why practices intended to change an individual can help spur social and political change, just as collective political action can produce a transformation of the self.Daniel Louis Wyche examines the political implications of what he calls practices of ethical self-change. These include Pierre Hadot's notion of "e;spiritual exercises"e;; what the French sociologist of labor Georges Friedmann calls the "e;interior effort"e;; Michel Foucault's ethics of the "e;care of the self"e;; what Martin Luther King Jr. refers to as the work of "e;self-purification"e; integral to direct action; and Audre Lorde's claim that caring for herself constitutes a form of "e;political warfare."e; Wyche argues that these concepts can collectively provide an understanding that effaces distinctions between the care of the self, the other, and the community in a way that avoids reducing the political to the ethical. Ambitious and nuanced, The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other offers a framework for unifying individual moral action and collective political life.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.5.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• ISBN-10: 0-231-55712-4 / 0231557124
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-55712-2 / 9780231557122