Description
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
Author: Estelle Ferrarese
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 08/25/2022
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.34d
ISBN13: 9781474467407
ISBN10: 1474467407
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Philosophy | Political
- Philosophy | Social
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 University Press.