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The Fragility of Concern for Others - Adorno and the Ethics of Care (Paperback)
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The Fragility of Concern for Others - Adorno and the Ethics of Care (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Continental Ethics
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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,
she stages a dialogue between Adornian Critical Theory and the
ethics of care. In doing so, Ferrarese approaches old questions in
a new light in a bid to give dignity to the singular, to make its
specific claims and its moral pertinence heard.
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