Foucault's futures : a critique of reproductive reason /

"In Foucault's Futures, Penelope Deutscher reconsiders the role of procreation in Foucault's thought, especially its proximity to risk, mortality, and death. She brings together his work on sexuality and biopolitics to challenge our understanding of the politicization of reproduction....

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Autore principale: Deutscher, Penelope, 1966- (Autore)
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: New York : Columbia University Press [2017]
Serie:Critical life studies.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/deut17640
Sommario:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Suspensions of sex : Foucault and Derrida
  • 2. Reproductive futurism, Lee Edelman, and reproductive rights
  • 3. Foucault's children : rereading the History of Sexuality, Volume 1
  • 4. Immunity, bare life, and the thanatopolitics of reproduction : Foucault, Esposito, Agamben
  • 5. Judith Butler, precarious life, and reproduction : from social ontology to ontological tact
  • Notes
  • Index.