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Just Life reorients ethics and politics around the generativity of mothers and daughters rather than the right to property and the sexual proprieties of the oedipal drama. Invoking two concrete universals—everyone is born of a woman and everyone needs to eat—Rawlinson rethinks labor and food as relationships that make ethical claims and sustain agency. Just Life counters the capitalization of bodies under biopower with the solidarity of sovereign bodies.
Price: $32.00
Pages: 296
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
01 March 2016
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780231171755
Format: Paperback
Just Life expands the surprisingly narrow scope of the dominant frameworks in bioethics, and, more importantly, identifies new questions for the field. Rawlinson's insistence on seeing the commitments entailed by an ethics of life—especially attention to women, and to the earth—leads her to delve much deeper into the history of Western philosophy than most theorists in bioethics dare.
Mary C. Rawlinson is professor and chair of philosophy at Stony Brook University.
Preface: On the Necessity of Universals in Philosophy and Bioethics
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Our Time—Man, Money, Media
I. Critique of Rights
1. State of Nature! Property, Propriety, and the Rights of Man
2. Capitalized Bodies: Bioethics, Biopower, and the Practice of Freedom
II. Refiguring Ethics
3. Antigone and Ismene: Hard Heads, Hard Hearts, and the Claim of the Right
4. Demeter and Persephone, "Unies Sous le Même Manteau"
III. Livable Futures
5. Eating at the Heart of Ethics
6. A Working Life
IV. Sovereign Bodies: Politics of Wonder or the Right to Be Joyful
Notes
Bibliography
Index