| The Care of Life: Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Bioethics and Biopolitics Contributor(s): de Beistegui, Miguel (Editor), Bianco, Giuseppe (Editor), Gracieuse, Marjorie (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1783480386 ISBN-13: 9781783480388 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $56.43 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Medical | Ethics - Philosophy | Movements - Critical Theory |
| Dewey: 174.2 |
| LCCN: 2014028213 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 9.5" (1.00 lbs) 332 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This interdisciplinary collection of essays demonstrates how the ethical and political problems we are confronted with today have come to focus largely on life. The contributors to this volume define and assess the specific meaning of life itself. It is only by doing so that we can understand why life has become an all-encompassing problem, why all questions, especially ethical and political, have become vital questions. We have reached a moment in history where every distinction and opposition is no longer in relation to life, but within it, and where life is at once a theoretical and practical problem. This book throws light on this nexus of problems at the heart of contemporary debates in bioethics and biopolitics. It helps us understand why and how life is understood, valued, cared for and framed today. Taking a genuinely transdisciplinary approach, these essays demonstrate how life is a multifaceted problem and how diverse the origins, foundations and also consequences of bioethics and biopolitics therefore are. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bianco, Giuseppe: - Giuseppe Bianco is a postdoctoral Leverhulme research assistant at the University of Warwick, UK.Gracieuse, Marjorie: - Marjorie is an affiliate member of the ERRAPHIS research laboratory (Toulouse, France) and teaches Philosophy and French literature at the Institut Florimont in Geneva, Switzerland.de Beistegui, Miguel: - Miguel de Beistegui is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. |
