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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.
Contents
Introduction
1. Confluences
A Body-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?
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