transdisciplinary perspectives in bioethics and biopolitics /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Miguel de Beistegui, Giuseppe Bianco and Marjorie Gracieuse
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vii, 323 pages ;
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23 cm
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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