Essential Care: An Ethics of Human Nature Book

Note to reader     viii
Foreword - Tamagochi and care     ix
Carelessness: a sign of our times     1
To care: the ethos of the human being     14
The fable-myth about 'care'     21
An ingenious slave: Gaius Julius Hyginus     23
Explaining the fable-myth about care     27
Dimensions of care     42
The nature of care     56
Resonances of care     72
Concretizations of care     93
Pathologies of care     116
Exemplary figures of care     120
Conclusion: to care and the future of the dispossessed of the earth     142
Glossary     145
Notes and further reading     152
Index     176