Estelle Ferrarese

The Fragility of Concern for Others

Adorno and the Ethics of Care
Übersetzer: Corcoran, Steven

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Produktbeschreibung

A systematic reflection on the social conditions of caring for others Estelle Ferrarese argues for an understanding of morality that is materialist and political. Taking the Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor W. Adorno as a point of departure, she questions his 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 gestures it enjoins, as well as its political stakes. 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. Offering a systematic study of the idea of 'coldness' in Adorno's philosophy, this book stages a dialogue between Adornian Critical Theory and the ethics of care. In doing so, it is able to approach old questions in a new light in a bid to give dignity to the singular, to make heard its specific claims and its moral pertinence. Estelle Ferrarese is Full-Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at Picardie-Jules-Verne University (France). 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 University Press.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781474467391
• ISBN-10: 1474467393
• Artikelnr.: 59912916

Autorenporträt

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 University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

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