Foucault''s Futures - A Critique of Reproductive Reason

Foucault's Futures analyzes Foucault's contributions to our understanding of the politicization of reproduction and its influence on the work of such theorists as Roberto Esposito, Giorgio Agamben, and Judith Butler.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Suspensions of Sex: Foucault and Derrida
2. Reproductive Futurism, Lee Edelman, and Reproductive Rights
3. Foucault's Children: Re-Reading The History of Sexuality
4. Immunity, Bare Life, and the Thanatopolitics of Reproduction: Foucault, Esposito, Agamben
5. Judith Butler, Precarious Life, and Reproduction: From Social Ontology to Ontological Tact
Notes
Index

About the author

Penelope Deutscher is Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. She is the author or editor of a number of books, including Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later (2016) and Critical Theory in Critical Times: Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order (2017), both from Columbia University Press.

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.

Report

"This strikingly imaginative book brings Foucault into dialogue with unexpected interlocutors and explores fascinating themes and figures in his thought fetuses, viruses and marsupial mothers. Deutscher's ideas never fail to interest and provoke." Johanna Oksala, University of Helsinki

Product details

• Authors: Penelope Deutscher, Deutscher Penelope
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9780231176415
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17641-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Critical Life Studies; Critical Life Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > 20th and 21st centuries; 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