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024 7 _a10.1515/9780823252268
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780823252268
035 _a(DE-B1597)555138
035 _a(OCoLC)843882953
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082 0 4 _a174.2
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aOliver, Kelly
_eautore
245 1 0 _aTechnologies of Life and Death :
_bFrom Cloning to Capital Punishment /
_cKelly Oliver.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bFordham University Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2013
300 _a1 online resource (272 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: Moral Machines and Political Animals --
_tPart One. Sex Machines --
_tOne. Genetic Engineering: Deconstructing Grown versus Made --
_tTwo. Artificial Insemination: Deconstructing Choice versus Chance --
_tPart Two. Medusa Machines --
_tThree. Girl Powered: Poetic Majesty against Sovereign Majesty --
_tFour. Rearview Mirror: Art, Violence, and Sublimation --
_tFive. Elephant Autopsy: Optic Machinery and the Scale of Sovereignty --
_tSix. Deadly Devices: Animals, Capital Punishment, and the Scope of Sovereignty --
_tSeven. Death Penalties: Ethics, Politics, and the Unconscious of Sovereignty --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThe central aim of this book is to approach contemporary problems raised by technologies of life and death as ethical issues that call for a more nuanced approach than mainstream philosophy can provide. To do so, it draws on the recently published seminars of Jacques Derrida to analyze the extremes of birth and dying insofar as they are mediated by technologies of life and death. With an eye to reproductive technologies, it shows how a deconstructive approach can change the very terms of contemporary debates over technologies of life and death, from cloning to surrogate motherhood to capital punishment, particularly insofar as most current discussions assume some notion of a liberal individual.The ethical stakes in these debates are never far from political concerns such as enfranchisement, citizenship, oppression, racism, sexism, and the public policies that normalize them. Technologies of Life and Death thus provides pointers for rethinking dominant philosophical and popular assumptions about nature and nurture,chance and necessity, masculine and feminine, human and animal, and what it means to be a mother or a father. In part, the book seeks to disarticulate a tension between ethics and politics that runs through these issues in order to suggest a more ethical politics by turning the force of sovereign violence back against itself. In the end, it proposes that deconstructive ethics with a psychoanalytic supplement can provide a corrective for moral codes and political clichés that turn us into mere answering machines.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aBioethics.
650 0 _aBiotechnology
_xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 4 _aGender & Sexuality.
650 4 _aPhilosophy & Theory.
650 4 _aTechnology & Engineering.
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / General.
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653 _aDerrida.
653 _aanimals.
653 _aart.
653 _acapital punishment.
653 _acloning.
653 _agenetic engineering.
653 _agirls.
653 _areproductive technologies.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823252268?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823252268
856 4 2 _3Cover
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