| Description |
1 online resource (148 pages). |
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| Series |
Contemporary continental ethics
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Contemporary continental ethics.
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| Note |
Translated from the French. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-144) and index. |
| 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. 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. |
| Contents |
Intro -- 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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.
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Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969. |
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Caring.
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Caring. |
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Altruism.
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Altruism. |
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Feminist ethics.
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Feminist ethics. |
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Social ethics.
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Social ethics. |
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PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy. |
| Added Author |
Corcoran, Steve, translator.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ferrarese, Estelle. Fragility of concern for others. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021] 1474467393 9781474467391 (OCoLC)1232628743 |
| ISBN |
9781474467414 (electronic book) |
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1474467415 (electronic book) |
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9781474467391 (hardcover) |
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1474467393 (hardcover) |
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