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....

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Deutscher, Penelope, 1966- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press [2017]
Series:Critical life studies.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/deut17640
Table of Contents:
  • 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.