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Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical (Paperback)
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Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical (Paperback)
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Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical explores the idea that legal
authority is no longer related to national sovereignty, but to the
'moral' attempt to nurture life. The book argues that whilst the
relationship between law and ethics has long been a central concern
in legal studies, it is now the relationship between law and life
that is becoming crucial. The waning legitimacy of conventional
conceptions of sovereignty is signalled the renewal of a version of
natural law, evident in discourses of human rights, that
de-emphasises the role of a divine law-giver in favour of an
Aristotelian conception of the natural purpose of life and the
'common good'. Synthesising elements of legal scholarship on
sovereignty, theories of biopolitics and biopower, as well as
recent developments in the domains of ethics, Amy Swiffen examines
the invocation of 'life' as a foundation for legal authority. The
book documents the connection between law, life and contemporary
forms of biopolitical power by critically analysing the fundamental
principles of the bioethical paradigm. Unique in its critical and
cross-disciplinary approach, Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical will
be of interest to students and teachers in the areas of law and
society, law and literature, critical legal studies, social theory,
bioethics, psychoanalysis, and biopolitics.
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