Research Catalog

Title

The care of life : transdisciplinary perspectives in bioethics and biopolitics / edited by Miguel de Beistegui, Giuseppe Bianco and Marjorie Gracieuse.

Publication

• London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2015]
• ©2015

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Additional Authors

• Beistegui, Miguel de, 1966-
• Bianco, Giuseppe
• Gracieuse, Marjorie

Description

vii, 323 pages; 23 cm

Subjects

• Biopolitics > Philosophy
• Bioethics > Philosophy
• Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Life: who cares? / Giuseppe Bianco, with Miguel de Beistegui -- A brief history of bioethics / Guillaume Le Blanc -- Between (bio)-politics and (bio)-ethics: what life? / Luca Paltrinieri -- What is vital? / Frédéric Worms -- The return of vitalism: Canguilhem, Bergson and the project of a biophilosophy / Charles T. Wolfe and Andy Wong -- Life and objective norms: Caguilhem in the context of contemporary meta-ethics / Sander Werkhoven -- Critical and political stakes of a philosophy of norms: part I: towards a critical philosophy of norms / Julien Pieron -- Critical and political stakes of a philosophy of norms: part II: theory of norms and social criticism / Florence Caeymaex -- The racial politics of life itself: Goldstein, Uexküll, Canguilhem and Fanon / Robert Bernasconi -- History and the politics of "life" / Claudia Stein and Roger Cooter -- Life of pain: remarks about negativity and effort in Georges Canguilhem / Giuseppe Bianco -- Human life and subjectivity: learning from Foucault / Piergiorgio Donatelli -- Ethics of care and face transplants: after Levinas, Deleuze and Guattari / Marjorie Gracieuse -- Ageing and longevity / Paul-Antoine Miquel -- Generational change as a vehicle for radical conceptual change: the case for periodic rejuvenation / Steve Fuller -- Sexuality and liberalism / Patrick Singy -- Desire within and beyond biopolitics / Miquel de Beistegui -- The pragmatics of desire and pleasure: rethinking somatic powers with Foucalt, Deleuze and Guattari / Marjorie Gracieuse and Nicolae Morar -- Revenge of the tender pervert: on a troubling concept that refuses to go away / Hector Kollias -- Jouissance in Lacan's seminar XX: Progelomena to a new reading of strange enjoyment and being an angel / Lorenzo Chiesa.

Call Number

JFE 15-5807

ISBN

• 9781783480371 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1783480378 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781783480388 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1783480386 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781783480395 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014028213

OCLC

884808903

Title

The care of life : transdisciplinary perspectives in bioethics and biopolitics / edited by Miguel de Beistegui, Giuseppe Bianco and Marjorie Gracieuse.

Publisher

London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Beistegui, Miguel de, 1966- editor.

Bianco, Giuseppe, editor.

Gracieuse, Marjorie, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-5807