Care of Life (eBook)

lt;span>Miguel de Beistegui is professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. His many publications include Aesthetics After Metaphysics (Routledge, 2012), Proust as Philosopher (Routledge, 2012), Immanence and Philosophy: Deleuze (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) and The New Heidegger (Continuum, 2005).

Giuseppe Bianco is a postdoctoral Leverhulme research assistant at the University of Warwick, UK. He is co-editor of Badiou and the Philosophers (Bloomsbury, 2013).

Marjorie Gracieuse is a postdoctoral Leverhulme research assistant at the University of Warwick, UK.

Contributors: Katherine Angel, Leverhulme Trust Fellow (Queen Mary, University of London); Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy (University of Pennsylvania, USA); Giuseppe Bianco, postdoctoral Levehulme research assistant (University of Warwick, UK); Florence Caeymaex, Professor of Philosophy (Université de Liège, Belgium); Lorenzo Chiesa, Professor of Modern European Thought (University of Kent, UK); Miguel de Beistegui , Professor of Philosophy (University of Warwick, UK); Piergiorgio Donatelli, Professor of Philosophy (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology (University of Warwick, UK); Marjorie Gracieuse, postdoctoral Leverhulme research assistant (University of Warwick, UK); Hector Kollias, Lecturer in French (King’s College London, UK); Guillaume LeBlanc, Professor of Philosophy (Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux 3, France); Paul-Antoine Miquel, Professor of Philosophy (Université de Toulouse, France); Julien Pieron, Research Associate (Université de Liège, Belgium); Aaron Schuster, Research Fellow (Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, Germany); Patrick Singy, Fello (Columbia University, UK); Claudia Stein, Associate Professor of History (University of Warwick, UK); Sander Werkhoven, PhD candidate (University of Warwick, UK); Charles Wolfe, Research Fellow in Philosophy (University of Ghent, Belgium); Andy Wong, PhD candidate (University of Ghent, Belgium); Frédéric Worms, Professor of Philosophy (Ecole normale supérieure, France)

Acknowledgements / List of Contributors / Introduction / Part I: ‘Bioethics’ and ‘Biopolitics’/ 1. A Brief History of Bioethics, Guillaume Le Blanc / 2. Between (Bio)-Politics and (Bio)-Ethics: What Life?, Luca Paltrinieri / 3. What is Vital?, Frédéric Worms / Part Two: Norms and Normality / 4. The Return of Vitalism: Canguilhem, Bergson and the project of a biophilosophy, Charles T. Wolfe and Andy Wong / 5. Life and Objective Norms: Canguilhem in the Context of Contemporary Meta-ethics, Sander Werkhoven / 6. Critical and Political Stakes of a Philosophy of Norms. Part I: Towards a critical philosophy of norms, Julien Pieron / 7. Critical and Political Stakes of a Philosophy of Norms. Part II: Theory of Norms and Social Criticism, Florence Caeymaex / 8. The Racial Politics of Life itself: Goldstein, Uexküll, Canguilhem, and Fanon, Robert Bernasconi / 9. History and the Politics of ‘Life’,Claudia Stein and Roger Cooter / Part Three: Pathology and Ageing / 10. Life of Pain. Remarks about Negativity and Effort in Georges Canguilhem, Giuseppe Bianco / 11. Human Life and Subjectivity. Learning from Foucault, Piergiorgio Donatelli / 12. Ethics of Care and Face Transplant. After Levinas, Deleuze and Guattari, Marjorie Gracieuse / 13. Ageing and Longevity, Paul-Antoine Miquel / 14. Generational Change as a Vehicle for Radical Conceptual Change: the Case of Periodic Rejuvenation, Steve Fuller / Part Four: Desire and Pleasure / 15. Sexuality and liberalism,
Patrick Singy / 16. Desire Within and Beyond Biopolitics, Miguel de Beistegui / 17. The Pragmatics of Desire and Pleasure: Rethinking Somatic Powers with Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Marjorie Gracieuse and Nicolae Morar / 18. Revenge of the Tender Pervert: On A Troubling Concept that Refuses to Go Away, Hector Kollias / 19. Jouissance in Lacan’s seminar XX: Proglomena to a New Reading of Strange Enjoyement and Being an Angel, Lorenzo Chiesa