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Technologies of Life and Death - From Cloning to Capital Punishment (Hardcover)
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Technologies of Life and Death - From Cloning to Capital Punishment (Hardcover)
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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 cliches that turn us into mere answering machines.
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