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95Judith Butler’s ‘not particularly postmodern insight’ of recognitionPhilosophy and Social Criticism 37 (7): 759-773. 2011.Although Judith Butler regards recognition as the theme unifying her work, one finds a striking absence of dialogue between her and the authors of the normative theories of recognition – Honneth, Habermas, Ricoeur, etc. In the present article I seek to call into question this sentiment, shared by the two sides, of a radical theoretical heterogeneity. First I seek to show that the theory of performativity which Butler developed initially, contrary to all expectations, sets her relatively apart fr…Read more
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83''Gabba-Gabba, We Accept You, One of Us'': Vulnerability and Power in the Relationship of RecognitionConstellations 16 (4): 604-614. 2009.No Current Hegelian theories of recognition assume a concept of the subject as always being available for harming. This emphasis placed on vulnerability, whose validity is not being called into question as such here, leave a certain number of elements on the nature of the harm threatening the person expecting recognition unclarified, especially the fact that it cannot be perpetrated without the victim being aware. At the same time, it fails to address the nature of the relationship of recognitio…Read more
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63Le conflit politique selon HabermasMultitudes 41 (2): 196. 2010.Il a été fréquemment, et à bon droit, relevé la minceur, voire l’absence du motif de l’antagonisme dans une théorie, celle de Habermas, entièrement préoccupée d’entente. Pourtant, s’il est à chercher, c’est dans la figure de la désobéissance civile que le conflit se trouve. De quels traits est alors paré le conflit politique tel qu’il apparaît chez Habermas? Fort classiques, ils sont pour la plupart empruntés à John Rawls. C’est l’architectonique théorique sur laquelle elle se trouve déposée qui…Read more
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55Vulnerability: A Concept with Which to Undo the World As It Is?Critical Horizons 17 (2): 149-159. 2016.
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46Habermas: Testing the politicalThesis Eleven 130 (1): 58-73. 2015.I show how a notion of the political as emerging reality which does not derive from any other logic — as a phenomenon devoid of foundations, of predetermined elements — features in Habermas’s theory of society. There is certainly nothing obvious about such a claim, insofar as the political is conceived, across his entire oeuvre, in relation to the public sphere, which is presented as a social space in which the functions and properties he attributes to language in general are made explicit and …Read more
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44L'etica della cura e le teorie del riconoscimentoIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 24 (2): 393-410. 2011.
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38Vulnerability and Critical TheoryBrill Research Perspectives in Critical Theory 1 (2): 1-88. 2016.In _Vulnerability and Critical Theory_, Estelle Ferrarese identifies contemporary developments on the theme of vulnerability within critical theory while also seeking to reconstruct an idea of vulnerability that enables an articulation of the political and demonstrates how it is socially produced.
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37Niklas Luhmann et l'opinion publique. L'autre de l'espace publicCahiers Internationaux de Sociologie 116 (116): 97-115. 2004.
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37The Vulnerable and the Political: On the Seeming Impossibility of Thinking Vulnerability and the Political Together and Its ConsequencesCritical Horizons 17 (2): 224-239. 2016.This paper aims to refute the idea whereby giving consideration to vulnerability can only lead to an ethics, or is only relative to a politics derived from morality. I first shed some light on the seeming impossibility experienced by a large number of contemporary theories of vulnerability to fully think the political. Second, I define what one overlooks in the political when one simply considers it as a sphere of implementation of moral principles. Finally, I interpret care theories as an attem…Read more
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35The Political Grammar of Consent: Investigating a New Gender OrderConstellations 22 (3): 462-472. 2015.
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30The use of bodies. Agamben’s idea of a non-capitalist form of lifeJournal for Cultural Research 22 (2): 126-136. 2018.With the notion of the form-of-life as a counter-figure to the notion of bare life, Agamben seems to invite us to place at the center of a critical theory of capitalism a reflection on bios. To envisage a form of emancipation that unfolds against bare life suggests, at first glance, another relation to the living body. Such a gesture seems to be inspired by the desire to think a natural life that would also be a politically qualified life. The idea with which Agamben closes the Homo Sacer series…Read more
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29(Re)faire de la Théorie critique. Pour une (re)lecture féministe de l’École de FrancfortCités 73 (1): 43. 2018.
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21How capitalism forms our livesJournal for Cultural Research 22 (2): 105-112. 2018.Even before ‘economic precarity’ became the default explanation for the rise of defensive nationalism globally, scholars had already begun returning to ground their work in the economy and material...
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18Vivre à la merciMultitudes 37 (2): 132. 2009.Je tente de mettre en évidence trois pôles thématiques qui structurent la résurgence actuelle de l’idée de vulnérabilité, pôles qui sont à comprendre comme constitués dans un champ de tensions, et n’existant jamais sous une forme pure. Je distingue le modèle d’une disponibilité à la blessure physique et morale, celui d’une association stricte de l’idée de vulnérabilité au concept de dépendance, et enfin la vulnérabilité comme impropriété de soi. Et dans la mesure où la notion de vulnérabilité su…Read more
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11Vulnerability and Critical TheoryBrill. 2018.In _Vulnerability and Critical Theory_, Estelle Ferrarese identifies contemporary developments on the theme of vulnerability within critical theory while also seeking to reconstruct an idea of vulnerability that enables an articulation of the political and demonstrates how it is socially produced.
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9The Politics of Vulnerability (edited book)Routledge. 2017.Vulnerability is a concept with fleeting contours as much it is an idea with assured academic success. In the United States, torturable, "mutilatable," and killable bodies are a wide topic of discussion, especially after September 11 and the ensuing bellicosity. In Europe, current reflection on vulnerability has emerged from a thematic of precarity and exclusion; the term evokes lives that are dispensable, evictable, deportable, and the abandoning of individuals to naked forces of the market. Bu…Read more
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9The Fragility of Concern for Others: Adorno and the Ethics of CareEdinburgh University Press. 2020.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.
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7Vivere alla mercč. Figure della vulnerabilitÀ nelle teorie politiche contemporaneeSocietà Degli Individui 38 21-33. 2010.Questo articolo si sforza di ricollocare le teorie del care in seno alla teoria politica contemporanea, in cui si attesta un ritorno al tema della vulnerabilitÀ corporea e morale come problema politico e morale in sé. Qui si distinguono tre accezioni della parola vulnerabilitÀ, accezioni che implicano ogni volta ragionamenti morali e legittimano ordini politici differenti: il modello della disponibilitÀ alla ferita fisica e morale, quello dell'associazione stretta fra l'idea della vulnerabilitÀ …Read more
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6Difformer la vieArchives de Philosophie 85 (2): 61-46. 2022.Résumé De multiples théories contemporaines font de la politique une affaire de création d’une nouvelle forme de vie ; il est postulé que c’est en vivant (autrement) que l’on transforme le monde. Deux logiques se distinguent : une politique de la discipline, et une politique de l’exubérance ou de l’informe. Cet article s’en détache pour dégager de la pensée d’Adorno les éléments d’une politique du difforme : il confère à la forme (et non à la vie) le rôle de maintenir une indétermination, pensan…Read more
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6Esquisse d’une Théorie critique de la consommation éthiqueRue Descartes 103 (1): 11-26. 2023.« Même si elles sont datées par bien des aspects, les thèses de l’École de Francfort sur le marché et la consommation permettent de mettre au jour les contours et les manques de la critique du capitalisme que constitue la consommation éthique contemporaine. Nous en discutons dans cet article deux éléments. D’une part, la consommation éthique repose sur le postulat qu’il est possible et nécessaire d’injecter des normes morales dans le marché, posé comme en étant dépourvu. Or, la question de savoi…Read more
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6Qu'est-ce que lutter pour la reconnaissance? (edited book)Le Bord de l'eau. 2013.Il semble impossible, dans les théories contemporaines comme dans les discours politiques, de parler de reconnaissance sans parler de lutte. Que signifie alors précisément lutter pour la reconnaissance? Quelles sont les conditions de possibilité de l’affrontement? Qu’est-ce qui permet de l’identifier, puisqu’il existe des résistances qui restent invisibles? Pourquoi apparaît-il comme une condition nécessaire de la reconnaissance? Ce livre dégage autant une théorie du conflit qu’un diagnostic sur…Read more
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4“Gabba‐Gabba, We Accept You, One of Us”: Vulnerability and Power in the Relationship of RecognitionConstellations 16 (4): 604-614. 2009.
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Questo articolo si sforza di ricollocare le teorie del care in seno alla teoria politica contemporanea, in cui si attesta un ritorno al tema della vulnerabilità corporea e morale come problema politico e morale in sé. Qui si distinguono tre accezioni della parola vulnerabilità, accezioni che implicano ogni volta ragionamenti morali e legittimano ordini politici differenti: il modello della disponibilità alla ferita fisica e morale, quello dell’associazione stretta fra l’idea della vulnera…Read more
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