Life,care,and the medical humanities: An interview with Frédéric Worms

Abstract

Frédéric Worms is professor of philosophy and director of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris). His research focuses, on the one hand, on French philosophy of the 20th century, specifically on Henri Bergson, and, on the other hand, on vital and moral relations. Indeed, he has developed a philosophy of care conceived as the origin of moral relations. Patrick ffrench and Céline Lefève interviewed Fréderic Worms in January 2023. The interview was conducted in French. In the interview Fréderic Worms engages with issues around the status of the medical humanities in relation to the discipline and mission of philosophy, his philosophy of care and the question of a relational ontology, the central role of Georges Canguilhem and the importance of his thought for the medical humanities, the related questions of violation and precarity, and more generally with the significance of his own thought for the medical humanities.