The care of life : transdisciplinary perspectives in bioethics and biopolitics /: transdisciplinary perspectives in bioethics and biopolitics. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Miguel de Beistegui, Giuseppe Bianco and Marjorie Gracieuse.
• Editors: Beistegui, Miguel de, 1966-; Bianco, Giuseppe; Gracieuse, Marjorie
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: "Bioethics" and "Biopolitics"; Chapter One: A Brief History of Bioethics; Chapter Two: Between (Bio)-Politics and (Bio)-Ethics: What Life?; Chapter Three: What Is Vital?; Part II: Norms and Normality; Chapter Four: The Return of Vitalism: Canguilhem, Bergson and the Project of a Biophilosophy; Chapter Five: Life and Objective Norms: Canguilhem in the Context of Contemporary Meta-ethics; Chapter Six: Critical and Political Stakes of a Philosophy of Norms; Chapter Seven: Critical and Political Stakes of a Philosophy of Norms. Chapter Eight: The Racial Politics of Life Itself: Goldstein, Uexküll, Canguilhem and FanonChapter Nine: History and the Politics of "Life"; Part III: Pathology and Ageing; Chapter Ten: Life of Pain: Remarks about Negativity and Effort in Georges Canguilhem; Chapter Eleven: Human Life and Subjectivity: Learning from Foucault; Chapter Twelve: Ethics of Care and Face Transplants: After Levinas, Deleuze and Guattari; Chapter Thirteen: Ageing and Longevity; Chapter Fourteen: Generational Change as a Vehicle for Radical Conceptual Change: The Case for Periodic Rejuvenation. Part IV: Desire and PleasureChapter Fifteen: Sexuality and Liberalism; Chapter Sixteen: Desire Within and Beyond Biopolitics; Chapter Seventeen: The Pragmatics of Desire and Pleasure; Chapter Eighteen: Revenge of the Tender Pervert: On a Troubling Concept That Refuses to Go Away; Chapter Nineteen: Jouissance in Lacan's Seminar XX; Index; About the Contributors.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Rowman & Littlefield International
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 174.2; Medical: Ethics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics; Philosophy: Movements / Critical Theory; Bioethics -- Philosophy; Biopolitics -- Philosophy; Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge; Bioethics -- History; Bioethics -- Philosophy; Biopolitics -- Philosophy; Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783480395; 1783480394
• Related ISBNs: 9781783480371; 1783480378; 9781783480388; 1783480386
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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