Foucault''s Futures - A Critique of Reproductive Reason

Summary

Penelope Deutscher reconsiders the role of procreation in Foucault’s thought, especially its proximity to risk, mortality, and death. Foucault’s Futures brings together his work on sexuality and biopolitics to provide new insights into the conflicted political status of reproductive conduct and what it means for feminism and critical theory.

Product details

• Authors: Penelope Deutscher, Deutscher Penelope
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9780231176408
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17640-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Critical Life Studies; Critical Life Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, Structuralism and Post-structuralism