The Care of Life - Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Bioethics and Biopolitics (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2014
Editors:	Miguel De Beistegui • Giuseppe Bianco • Marjorie Gracieuse
Dimensions:	230 x 150 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	332
ISBN-13:	978-1-78348-038-8
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN:	1-78348-038-6
Barcode:	9781783480388

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