Essential Care

Boff investigates how the need to care is inbuilt in human nature. Compassion is the true essence of the human condition, masked by our immersion in neoliberal consumerism. This is a serious and reflective book in 15 sections, plus glossary and bibliography. Sections the fable-myth about 'Care'; Care - its dimensions, its essence, its resonances, its concrete forms, its pathological states; and, Exemplary figures.