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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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.
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
Les mer
Offers a feminist renewal of Adorno’s philosophy

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ISBN
9781474467391
Publisert
2020-12-15
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Vekt
322 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
160

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Oversetter

Biografisk notat

Estelle Ferrarese is Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at Picardie-Jules-Verne University. She is a Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She has been Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York and Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation fellow at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin. Her books include Une philosophie des sanglots (Rivages, 2025), The Fragility of Concern for Others. Adorno and the Ethics of Care (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Vulnerability and Critical Theory (Brill, 2018), Ethique et politique de l'espace public. Habermas et la discussion, (Vrin, 2015). Steven Corcoran is the editor of The Badiou Dictionary and Dissensus by Jacques Rancière, and the Secretary of Parrhesia, School of Philosophy, Berlin.