Passion, activity, and "The care of the self"

Hasting Center Report

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 31-34

  Edwards, James C ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MENTAL STRESS; PERCEPTION; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CARE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

BIOMEDICAL ENHANCEMENT; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HEALTH; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; PERCEPTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CARE; SOCIAL VALUES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0034150164     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3528312     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. M. Foucault, The Care of the Self, tr. R. Hurley (New York: Vintage Books, 1988), p. 54.
2. Think, in this connection, of what Christians call the Passion of Jesus, the pain and death he had to undergo, to suffer: passion is "pathos."
3. P. Kramer, Listening to Prozac (New York: Penguin Books, 1994), pp.1-21.
4. For the best short account see M. Heidegger, "The Question Concerning Technology," in The Question Concerning Technology, tr. W. Lovitt (New York: Harper and Row, 1977), pp. 3-35.
5. M. Heidegger, "What Are Poets For," in Poetry, Language, Truth, tr. A. Hofstadter (New York: Harper and Row, 1971), pp. 91-142.
6. See J. C. Edwards, The Plain Sense of Things: The Fate of Religion in an Age of Normal Nihilism (University Park, Penn.: Penn State Press, 1997), Chapter 5.