“The tragedy,” James Baldwin once observed regarding the condition of the world, “is that most of the people who say they care about it do not care. What they care about is their safety and their profits.” In the decades since Baldwin’s words, artists, writers, and thinkers around the world have continued to call for more attentive, expansive, and radical practices of care—even as capitalist cultures have tightened their grip on life through security, accumulation, and disposability.
Pensées soignées, K. Verlag’s new series of works-in-translation, amplifies voices from the non-Anglophone world who are thinking about care and caring about thought. These texts do not offer easy answers, but they open linguistic and conceptual spaces that are at once intellectually rigorous and emotionally resonant. Through translation, they bring into English a spectrum of situated insights, local solidarities, and conceptual tools that otherwise remain inaccessible—not only across languages, but across forms of knowing and sensing.
In an era marked by disorientation and systemic crises, Pensées soignées (Well-Tended Thoughts) proposes writing and translation not just as literary acts, but as modes of relation, resistance, and repair.
Series Editors: Stuart Kendall and Etienne Turpin Book and Series Design: K. Verlag with Wolfgang Hückel and Katharina Tauer
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