The fragility of concern for others : Adorno and the ethics of care / Estelle Ferrarese ; translated by Steven Corcoran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferrarese, Estelle, author.

Contributor:

Corcoran, Steve, translator.

Series:

Contemporary continental ethics.

Contemporary continental ethics

Standardized Title:

La fragilité du souci des autres. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.

Adorno, Theodor W.

Caring--Moral and ethical aspects.

Caring.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 pages).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Confluences

2. The Empire of Coldness

3. A Forgetting in the Thesis of Forgetting

4. Concern for Others in a Wrong World

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

"Translated from the French."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 20, 2022).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474496094

1474496091

9781474467414

1474467415

OCLC:

1306538259