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Foucault's futures : a critique of reproductive reason / Penelope Deutscher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deutscher, Penelope, 1966- author.
- Series:
- Critical life studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Influence.
- Foucault, Michel.
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
- Feminist ethics.
- Human reproduction--Philosophy.
- Human reproduction.
- Sex--Philosophy.
- Sex.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 261 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- 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. By analyzing Foucault's contribution to the politics of maternity and its influence on the work of thinkers such as Roberto Esposito, Giorgio Agamben, and Judith Butler, Deutscher provides new insights into the conflicted political status of reproductive conduct and what it means for feminism and critical theory. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Suspensions of sex : Foucault and Derrida
- Reproductive futurism, Lee Edelman, and reproductive rights
- Foucault's children : re-reading The history of sexuality, volume one
- Immunity, bare life, and the thanatopolitics of reproduction : Foucault, Esposito, Agamben
- Judith Butler, precarious life, and reproduction: from social ontology to ontological tact.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231176408
- 0231176406
- 9780231176415
- 0231176414
- OCLC:
- 965805793
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