Abstract

The "ethic of care" that modern people are losing can be read in the world's literature.

The Ethics of Care and Empowerment" has attracted attention from the fields of politics, society, medicine, and nursing care.
The book is a groundbreaking inquiry into the "ethics of care" by a British-American literary scholar who has attracted attention from the political, social, medical, and nursing fields for his book "The Ethics of Care and Empowerment.
In the context of neoliberalism, which is forcing people to be independent, this book traces the idea of care and connects it with literary works from Korea, Europe, the U.S., Japan, and other countries.

◯Table of Contents
Now is the Time to Think about the "Ethics of Care"--Introduction
Chapter 1: "Care" as something that modern people are losing
Chapter 2: From the Perspective of the Weak: A Story of Violence and Symbiosis
Chapter 3: A Story of Survival Generated by the Science Fiction Imagination
Chapter 4 Reading Literature Against Toxic Masculinity
Chapter 5: Remembering the Souls of the Dead (Villavudo)--The Sorrows of the Imagination
On Keeping One's Mouth Shut and Being Weak: An Afterword

Author’s Information

She was born in Wakayama, Japan in 1972.She is a scholar of 18th century medical history and English literature and a professor of foreign languages at Sophia University. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and Sociology from Cambridge University and a Ph. D. from the University of Glasgow. She specializes in Romantic literature and the history of medicine. Her recent publications include "Planet of Care" (Kodansha), "Ethics of Care and Empowerment" (Kodansha), and "Bessatsu 100 Pun de Meicyo: Beyond the Pandemic" (co-authored, NHK Publishing).