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The concept of ""care"" defines our humanity. Covering topics as diverse as familial care, medical care, artistic care, scientific care, and various other permutations of the term, this book examines the word and concept of ""care"" from a cultural perspective, tracing its use throughout literature and history

The concept of "care" defines our humanity, encompassing not only anxieties and woes but also acts of nurture, prudence, and diligence. Care is core to how we interact with one another and our surroundings, whether for good or bad. Insofar as everyone cares about someone or something, everyone cares about care. Covering topics as diverse as familial care, medical care, artistic care, scientific care, and various other permutations of the term, this book examines the word and concept of "care" from a cultural perspective, tracing its use throughout literature and history.

Ranging from Jonson to Rochester and including several critically neglected figures, this work brings together poetic contemporaries who illuminate the scope of Hobbes' writing and the reach of his influence, in turn shedding diverse lights on the nature of their own work

AbstractHobbes could not have written Paradise Lost: the longest of his few references to the story of Adam and Eve drains their relationship of drama and complexity; most aspects of human sexuality he addresses only in classifying them as off limits because of their indecency, neglecting topics in some respects germane to the clarification of his philosophy; and his original English verse amounts to one line for each of that epic's twelve books. This short poem nonetheless represents an intriguing persuasion to love written in his extreme old age. Moreover, his treatment of "LUST" in The Elements of Law takes a significantly non-judgmental form by the standards of his time, though not marking so substantial an innovation as Simon Blackburn takes it to be. Most importantly, the anti-puritanical thrust of Hobbes's attack on Presbyterian preachers in Behemoth again illustrates his capacity for entertaining—however briefly—an essentially uncensorious view of human sexuality, this time in conjunction with a critique of sexual repression, as imposed by those clergymen in their role as spiritual advisers, that sheds invaluable light on the self-consciously scandalous libertinism of younger contemporaries often identified in his own day and since as "Hobbists".