The Fragility of Concern for Others
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| ISBN13: | 9781474467391 |
| ISBN10: | 1474467393 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 160 pages |
| Size: | 216x138 mm |
| Weight: | 322 g |
| Language: | English |
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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.
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
-Centred Morality; The Particular against the General; What Is Moral Reasoning?; Internal Nature, External Nature; Gaps; 2. The Empire of Coldness; The Withering of Experience, Commensurability, Fetishism and Self
-Preservation; Forgetting Others; The Withering of Lived Experience; Commensurability and Interchangeability; Fantasmagoria and Fetishism; Self
-Preservation; Reflections on the Thesis of ?Forgetting?; Forgetting as a Political (not Cognitive) Category; The Human Being, A Figure without Substrate; 3. A Forgetting in the Thesis of Forgetting; Adorno and ?Woman?; The Gender Order: Adornian Insights and Blind Spots; Cold, Furiously Cold Women; Gendered Moral Dispositions: A Reading of Care Theories; Coldness and Caring for Others after Late Capitalism; The Temptation of ?Emotional Capitalism?; Counter
-Arguments; 4. Concern for Others in a Wrong World; The Fragility of Concern for Others in Acts; The Impossibility of Moral Knowledge; Disadjustments and Reversals; Moral Powerlessness, Political Power; The Moral ?Wrongness? of Concern?; Bibliography.
