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

Estelle Ferrarese; Steven Corcoran

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

The Fragility of Concern for Others

Adorno and the Ethics of Care

Estelle Ferrarese and Steven Corcoran

In the series Contemporary Continental Ethics

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474467414

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A systematic reflection on the social conditions of caring for others

Offers a feminist renewal of Adorno’s philosophy
Stages a conversation between two strands of theory that, despite the importance that they each grant to human vulnerability, have yet to enter into discussion: the Frankfurt School and the ethics of care
Sheds light on the difficulties and the lacuna of Adorno’s Critical Theory concerning patriarchy
Highlights the difficulty involved in determining the meaning of a moral act in the capitalist context
Brings the work of one of the leading figures of the contemporary French reception of Critical Theory to an English-language audience

Estelle Ferrarese, one of the leading figures of the contemporary French reception of Critical Theory, 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 Adorno as a point of departure, Ferrarese 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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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
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- Main content: 160
Keywords: Philosophy

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Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474467414