TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferrarese,Estelle
AU  - Corcoran,Steve
TI  - The fragility of concern for others: Adorno and the ethics of care 
T2  - Contemporary continental ethics
SN  - 9781474467414
AV  - BJ1475 .T444 2021
KW  - Adorno, Theodor W.,
KW  - Caring
KW  - Altruism
KW  - Feminist ethics
KW  - Social ethics
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Translated from the French; 2; 2; b
N2  - 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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