The Fragility of Concern for Others: Adorno and the Ethics of Care
Estelle Ferrarese is one of the leading figures of the contemporary French reception of Critical Theory and this book offers a renewal of the thinking of Theodor W. Adorno.
Ferrarese develops our thinking about the social conditions of caring for others, while arguing for an understanding of morality that is materialist and political – always-already political.
Taking the social philosopher Theodor W. Adorno as a point of departure, she questions this social philosophy by submitting it to ideas deriving from theories of care. She thinks through the mechanisms of the social fragility of caring for others, the moral gesture it enjoins, as well as its political stakes.
In the end, Ferrarese shows that the capitalist form of life, strained by a generalised indifference, produces a compartmentalised attention to others, one limited to very particular tasks and domains and attributed to women

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The Fragility of Concern for Others: Adorno and the Ethics of Care
Estelle Ferrarese is one of the leading figures of the contemporary French reception of Critical Theory and this book offers a renewal of the thinking of Theodor W. Adorno.
Ferrarese develops our thinking about the social conditions of caring for others, while arguing for an understanding of morality that is materialist and political – always-already political.
Taking the social philosopher Theodor W. Adorno as a point of departure, she questions this social philosophy by submitting it to ideas deriving from theories of care. She thinks through the mechanisms of the social fragility of caring for others, the moral gesture it enjoins, as well as its political stakes.
In the end, Ferrarese shows that the capitalist form of life, strained by a generalised indifference, produces a compartmentalised attention to others, one limited to very particular tasks and domains and attributed to women

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The Fragility of Concern for Others: Adorno and the Ethics of Care

The Fragility of Concern for Others: Adorno and the Ethics of Care

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The Fragility of Concern for Others: Adorno and the Ethics of Care

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Estelle Ferrarese is one of the leading figures of the contemporary French reception of Critical Theory and this book offers a renewal of the thinking of Theodor W. Adorno.
Ferrarese develops our thinking about the social conditions of caring for others, while arguing for an understanding of morality that is materialist and political – always-already political.
Taking the social philosopher Theodor W. Adorno as a point of departure, she questions this social philosophy by submitting it to ideas deriving from theories of care. She thinks through the mechanisms of the social fragility of caring for others, the moral gesture it enjoins, as well as its political stakes.
In the end, Ferrarese shows that the capitalist form of life, strained by a generalised indifference, produces a compartmentalised attention to others, one limited to very particular tasks and domains and attributed to women


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474467407
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 08/25/2022
Series: Contemporary Continental Ethics
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Estelle Ferrarese is Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at Picardie-Jules-Verne University, France. She is the author of Vulnerability and Critical Theory (Brill, 2018), Ethique et politique de l'espace public. Habermas et la discussion (Vrin, 2015) and Qu’est-ce que lutter pour la reconnaissance? (Editions Le Bord de l’Eau, 2013). She is co-editor of Formes de vie (editions du CNRS, 2018) and The Politics of Vulnerability (Routledge, 2017). She is also the author of numerous articles on the Frankfurt School, feminism, deliberative democracy and vulnerability as a political category.

Steven Corcoran has translated numerous works by French and German philosophers, including Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou, and is the editor of The Badiou Dictionary, published by Edinburgh UniversityPress.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Confluences

A Body-Centred Morality

The Particular against the General

What Is Moral Reasoning?

Internal Nature, External Nature

Gaps

2. The Empire of Coldness

The Withering of Experience, Commensurability, Fetishism and Self-Preservation.

Forgetting Others

The Withering of Lived Experience

Commensurability and Interchangeability

Fantasmagoria and Fetishism

Self-Preservation

Reflections on the Thesis of ‘Forgetting’

Forgetting as a Political (not Cognitive) Category

The Human Being, A Figure without Substrate

3. A Forgetting in the Thesis of Forgetting

Adorno and ‘Woman’

The Gender Order: Adornian Insights and Blind Spots

Cold, Furiously Cold Women

Gendered Moral Dispositions: A Reading of Care Theories

Coldness and Caring for Others after Late Capitalism

The Temptation of ‘Emotional Capitalism’

Counter-Arguments

4. Concern for Others in a Wrong World

The Fragility of Concern for Others in Acts

The Impossibility of Moral Knowledge

Disadjustments and Reversals

Moral Powerlessness, Political Power

The Moral ‘Wrongness’ of Concern?

Bibliography

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