The Fragility of Caring for Others: Adoo and Care: Adoo and the Ethics of Care (Contemporary Continental Ethics)

by: Ferrarese (Author),Estelle(Author)

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Edition: Reprint,Translation

Publication Date: 15 Dec. 2020

Language: English

Print Length: 160 pages

ISBN-10: 1474467393

ISBN-13: 9781474467391

Book 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. Adoo. 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. Adoo 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
About the Author
From the Inside Flap A systematic reflection on the social conditions of caring for othersEstelle Ferrarese argues for an understanding of morality that is materialist and political. Taking the Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor W. Adoo 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 Adoo s philosophy, she stages a dialogue between Adoian 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.Estelle Ferrarese is Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at Picardie-Jules-Vee University, France.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. From the Back Cover A systematic reflection on the social conditions of caring for others Estelle Ferrarese argues for an understanding of morality that is materialist and political. Taking the Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor W. Adoo 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 Adoo’s philosophy, she stages a dialogue between Adoian 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. Estelle Ferrarese is Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at Picardie-Jules-Vee University, France. 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.
About the Author
Estelle Ferrarese is Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at Picardie-Jules-Vee University in 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 Ranciere and Alain Badiou, and is the editor of The Badiou Dictionary, published by Edinburgh University Press. Read more