Philosophy of Care: New Approaches to Vulnerability, Otherness and Therapy

In this book, authors from a wide interdisciplinary spectrum discuss the issue of care. The book covers both philosophical and therapeutic studies and contains a three-pronged approach to discussing the concepts of care: vulnerability, otherness, and therapy. Above all, it is a matter of combining, in a plural form, a path with multiple theoretical and conceptual bifurcations, but which always point to an observation of society from the perspective of human vulnerability.

Joaquim Braga is researcher and professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Coimbra. He is also a member of the Research Unit "Institute for Philosophical Studies". His graduation in Philosophy took place at the Faculty of Letter of the University of Coimbra. In 2010, at the Humboldt University of Berlin, he finished his PhD with a thesis based upon the philosophy of Ernst Cassirer. Currently, his research activity covers the fields of Picture Theory, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Culture and Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, with a special interest in symbolic thought. Inter alia, his works include Die symbolische Prägnanz des Bildes. Zu einer Kritik des Bildbegriffs nach der Philosophie Ernst Cassirers (Freiburg, 2012), Rethinking Culture and Cultural Analysis - Neudenken von Kultur und Kulturanalyse (Berlin, 2013), Leituras da Sociedade Moderna. Media, Política, Sentido (Coimbra, 2013), Símbolo e Cultura (Coimbra, 2014), Bernard de Mandeville's Tropology of Paradoxes: Morals, Politics, Economics, and Therapy (Springer, 2015), Antropologia da Individuação. Estudos sobre o Pensamento de Ernst Cassirer (Porto Alegre, 2017), Conceiving Virtuality: From Art to Technology (Springer, 2019), Sensibilidade e matéria no pensamento de Denis Diderot (Coimbra, 2020), Michel Foucault e os Discursos do Corpo (Campinas, 2020), Teoria das Formas Imagéticas. Ensaios sobre Arte, Estética, Tecnologia (Coimbra, 2020).

Mário Santiago de Carvalho is Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Coimbra and Scientific Coordinator of the R&D Unit, Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos (IEF). Author of several books and papers related to his main philosophical fields of research - Portuguese Aristotelianism, Medieval Philosophy, Metaphysics and Philosophy of Music - he has taught at other Universities, in Portugal and abroad, has translated Greek and Latin philosophical texts, and is currently supervising the bilingual edition of the Commentarii Collegii Conimbricensis Societatis Iesu.