In “The Other Side of Love” (2022) Cornelia Klinger develops her concept of Lebenssorge, starting from the broader notion of Lebenssorge instead of care. “Lebenssorge implies a different understanding of time (cyclical instead of linear) and a different conception of man (reciprocal instead of subject-active vs. object-passive). All together, this amounts to a different worldview (human instead of machine)” (Klinger 2013: 268). Life care regimes provide information about, how life care tasks are organized in a society. Klinger (2013, 2022) distinguishes three life care regimes: bourgeois-familial (19th. century), national-welfare-state (20th century), and market-economy-profit-oriented (since 1980), whereby in the third, capitalist-oriented, attempts are made to organize life care via care markets.
Care Glossary
Terms for Caring Societies
