0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R1,000 - R2,500 (2)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 2 of 2 matches in All Departments

The Ethics of Choosing Children (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Simon Reader The Ethics of Choosing Children (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Simon Reader
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book takes the contentious issue of designer babies and argues against the liberal eugenic current of bioethics that commends the logic and choice regimes of selective reproduction. Against conceptions of Procreative Beneficence that trade on a disregard for the gifts of maternal bodies, it seeks to recover a thought of maternal giving and a more hospitable ethic of generational beneficence. Exploring themes of responsibility, gift and natality, the book refigures the experience of reproduction as the site of an ethical response to future generations, where refusal to choose one's children is one virtuous response. The book will appeal to anyone with an interest in reproductive ethics, feminist thought and those seeking principled grounds for resisting the technologies of choosing children.

Notework - Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style (Hardcover): Simon Reader Notework - Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style (Hardcover)
Simon Reader
R2,061 R1,690 Discovery Miles 16 900 Save R371 (18%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Notework begins with a striking insight: the writer's notebook is a genre in itself. Simon Reader pursues this argument in original readings of unpublished writing by prominent Victorians, offering an expansive approach to literary formalism for the twenty-first century. Neither drafts nor diaries, the notes of Charles Darwin, Oscar Wilde, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Vernon Lee, and George Gissing record ephemeral and nonlinear experiences, revealing each author's desire to leave their fragments scattered and unused. Presenting notes in terms of genre allows Reader to suggest inventive new accounts of key Victorian texts, including The Picture of Dorian Gray, On the Origin of Species, and Hopkins's devotional lyrics, and to reinterpret these works as meditations on the ethics of compiling and using data. In this way, Notework recasts information collection as a personal and expressive activity that comes into focus against large-scale systems of knowledge organization. Finding resonance between today's digital culture and its nineteenth-century precursors, Reader honors our most disposable, improvised, and fleeting written gestures.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
PostUCare™ 3-in-1 Ergonomic & Posture…
 (1)
R2,599 R2,099 Discovery Miles 20 990
Higher Truth
Chris Cornell CD  (1)
R223 Discovery Miles 2 230
DR. Stay Wet Palette with Lid - Large…
R1,698 R1,404 Discovery Miles 14 040
Ab Wheel
R209 R149 Discovery Miles 1 490
Alcolin Cold Glue (500ml)
R128 R107 Discovery Miles 1 070
Not available
Peptine Pro Canine/Feline Hydrolysed…
R369 R259 Discovery Miles 2 590
Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle
Game cartridge  (2)
R626 Discovery Miles 6 260
Deepcool Z10 High Performance CPU…
R189 R118 Discovery Miles 1 180
Loot
Nadine Gordimer Paperback  (2)
R391 R362 Discovery Miles 3 620

 

Partners