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In Foucault's Futures, Penelope Deutscher reconsiders the role of procreation in Foucault's thought, especially its proximity to risk, mortality, and death. She brings together his work on sexuality and biopolitics to challenge our understanding of the politicization of reproduction. By analyzing Foucault's contribution to the politics of maternity and its influence on the work of thinkers such as Roberto Esposito, Giorgio Agamben, and Judith Butler, Deutscher provides new insights into the conflicted political status of reproductive conduct and what it means for feminism and critical theory.
Price: $32.00
Pages: 280
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Series: Critical Life Studies
Publication Date:
04 April 2017
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780231176415
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Political
Foucault's Futures opens up a new future for Foucault by showing how profoundly, and how unexpectedly, his account of biopolitical power informs the procreative politics implicit in his various writings on sex. Combining theoretical rigor with intellectual generosity, Penelope Deutscher proposes and enacts a critical ethics that mobilizes the "suspended reserves" of Foucault (and many other theorists) to generate striking conceptual convergences that make for a brilliantly productive critique of reproductive reason.
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.
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