Heidegger, Reproductive Technology, & The Motherless Age

Dana S. Belu is Associate Professor of Philosophy & Chair of the Philosophy Department at California State University. 

Chapter 1: Introduction: Phenomenology, Feminism, &Reproductive Technology.- Chapter 2: The Paradox of Ge-stell.- Chapter 3: Enframing the Womb: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Artificial Conception and Surrogacy in the Motherless Age.- Chapter 4: Mastering the Spark of Life: Between Aristotle and Heidegger on Artificial Conception.- Chapter 5:  On the Harnessing of Birth in the Technological Age.- Chapter 6:  The Poi sis of Birth.- Epilogue:  Heidegger's Black Notebooks

"It is an excellent work for anyone who wants to learn more about Heidegger, especially Heidegger's work on technology ... . It is also an important work for feminist philosophers interested in IVF and/or surrogacy, since it provides a new way to understand their imbrication in the enframed and enframing world of modernity, a world, Belu shows, that both constructs and controls women as resources." (Lorraine Markotic, Hypatia Reviews Online, hypatiareviews.org, November 2, 2020)