Metafisica e fragilità

Caterina Botti, Giorgio Fazio and Elettra Stimilli discuss Estelle Ferrarese’s La fragilità della cura degli altri (The Fragility of the Others’ Care). The authors present the book’s main theses and critically analyze them. The specific way in which Ferrarese envisages a rich encounter between Adorno’s reflections on the possibility of a moral life and care ethics is analyzed from different points of view. In her contribution, Botti develops the suggestions which can be derived from Ferrarese’s volume from a care perspective, while suggesting some critiques from a more radical feminist point of view, while Fazio discusses Ferrarese’s theses more from within the critical perspective, and suggests a further analysis based on the relevance of Habermas e Honneth’s points of view. To conclude the discus- sion, Stimilli’s contribution goes deeply in Ferrarese’s analysis of Adorno’s philosophy and challenges it mainly with reference to the understanding of bodily materiality.