Technologies of Life and Death : : From Cloning to Capital Punishment / / Kelly Oliver.
The 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Moral Machines and Political Animals
- Part One. Sex Machines
- One. Genetic Engineering: Deconstructing Grown versus Made
- Two. Artificial Insemination: Deconstructing Choice versus Chance
- Part Two. Medusa Machines
- Three. Girl Powered: Poetic Majesty against Sovereign Majesty
- Four. Rearview Mirror: Art, Violence, and Sublimation
- Five. Elephant Autopsy: Optic Machinery and the Scale of Sovereignty
- Six. Deadly Devices: Animals, Capital Punishment, and the Scope of Sovereignty
- Seven. Death Penalties: Ethics, Politics, and the Unconscious of Sovereignty
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index