Falsafah-yi Murāqibat: Persian 1402

Retracing the philosophical discussions around care The ideology of creativity dominates our current culture. One is supposed to create the new and not to care about the things as they are. This ideology legitimizes the domination of the "creative class" over the rest of the population predominantly occupied by care - medical care, child care, agriculture, industrial maintenance, and so on. We have a responsibility to care for our bodies, but here again, our culture tends to thematize the bodies of desire and ignore the bodies of care - ill bodies in need of self-care and social care. However, the discussion of care has a long philosophical tradition. The book retraces some episodes of this tradition - beginning with Plato and ending with Alexander Bogdanov through Hegel, Heidegger, Bataille, and many others. The central question discussed is: who should be the subject of care? Should I care for myself or trust others, the system, and the institutions? Here, self-care becomes a revolutionary principle that confronts the individual with the dominating mechanisms of control.