Filosofia de la cura

The essential purpose of our civilization is to protect human lives. Society makes us responsible for taking care of ourselves and taking care of others, directly and through institutions, in order to preserve individual and collective health, but also culture, historical memory, public spaces , the way of living... The idea of care has a long philosophical tradition, and Boris Groys traces it - from Plato to Foucault, through Hegel, Nietzsche and Bataille, among many others - to raise a central question: who is the subject of care? Should I take care of myself or entrust it to others, to the system, to the institutions? Taking care of oneself is a revolutionary principle that confronts the individual with the dominant mechanisms of control.