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Record Nr.

UNINA9910639978303321

Autore

Burggraeve Roger

Titolo

Vulnerable responsibility : Small vices for caregivers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloemfontein, : UJ Press, 2018

ISBN

1-928424-17-1

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (154 p.)

Soggetti

Medical ethics & professional conduct

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

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”.