Arendt, Natality and Biopolitics: Toward Democratic Plurality and Reproductive Justice

by Ewa Ponowska Ziarek and Rosalyn Diprose

Book Overview

Rosalyn Diprose and Ewa Ziarek provide a reconfiguration of Hannah Arendt's philosophy of natality from the perspective of biopolitical and feminist theory. They show us that Arendt provides new ways of contesting biopolitical threats to human plurality and the threat of biopolitics - along with sexism, racism and political theology - to women's reproductive agency. They extend Arendt's account of collective political action to include political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474444342
• ISBN13: 9781474444347
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.4"