Estelle Ferrarese

Estelle Ferrarese is professor of moral and political philosophy at Picardie-Jules-Verne University (France). She is Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She has been Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York, Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation fellow at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin and at the Universität Potsdam. She has also been research fellow at the Marc Bloch Franco-German Center of Social Science Research, in Berlin. Her books include : Une philosophie des sanglots, Paris, Rivages, 2025; Le Marché de la Vertu, Paris, Vrin, 2023 (italian translation : Il Mercato della Virtù, Roma, Castelvecchi, 2024); Vulnerability and Critical Theory, Boston/ Leiden, Brill, 2018, La fragilité du souci des autres. Adorno et le care, Lyon, ENS éditions, 2018 (eng translation: Adorno and the Fragility of Caring for Others, Edinburgh University Press, 2020; italian translation : La fragilità della cura degli altri, Roma, Castelvecchi, 2023), Ethique et politique de l'espace public. Habermas et la discussion, Paris, Vrin, 2015 . She is also the author of numerous articles on Critical Theory, feminism, forms of life, and vulnerability.