Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital Punishment - Rilegato

Oliver, Kelly

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ISBN 10: 082325108X ISBN 13: 9780823251087

Casa editrice: Fordham Univ Pr, 2013

Riassunto

The central aim of this book is to approach contemporary problems raised by technologies of life and death as ethical issues that call for a more nuanced approach than mainstream philosophy can provide. To do so, it draws on the recently published seminars of Jacques Derrida to analyze the extremes of birth and dying insofar as they are mediated by technologies of life and death. With an eye to reproductive technologies, it shows how a deconstructive approach can change the very terms of contemporary debates over technologies of life and death, from cloning to surrogate motherhood to capital punishment, particularly insofar as most current discussions assume some notion of a liberal individual.

The ethical stakes in these debates are never far from political concerns such as enfranchisement, citizenship, oppression, racism, sexism, and the public policies that normalize them. Technologies of Life and Death thus provides pointers for rethinking dominant philosophical and popular assumptions about nature and nurture,chance and necessity, masculine and feminine, human and animal, and what it means to be a mother or a father.

In part, the book seeks to disarticulate a tension between ethics and politics that runs through these issues in order to suggest a more ethical politics by turning the force of sovereign violence back against itself. In the end, it proposes that deconstructive ethics with a psychoanalytic supplement can provide a corrective for moral codes and political clichés that turn us into mere answering machines.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Her most recent books are Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Film, Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us To Be Human, and Weapon as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex and the Media (Columbia University Press, 2007).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Fordham Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 082325108X
• ISBN 13: 9780823251087
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 260