Fragility of Concern for Others: Adorno and the Ethics of Care
Nov 2020 · Edinburgh University Press
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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
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
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 mora...
About the author
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 translator of Dissensus by Jacques Rancière, and the Secretary of Parrhesia, School of Philosophy, Berlin.
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 th...
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