Just Life reorients ethics and politics around the generativity of mothers and daughters rather than the right to property and the sexual proprieties of the oedipal drama. Invoking two concrete universals—everyone is born of a woman and everyone needs to eat—Rawlinson rethinks labor and food as relationships that make ethical claims and sustain agency. Just Life counters the capitalization of bodies under biopower with the solidarity of sovereign bodies.
- Table of Contents
- Preface: On the Necessity of Universals in Philosophy and Bioethics
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Our Time—Man, Money, Media
- I. Critique of Rights
- 1. State of Nature! Property, Propriety, and the Rights of Man
- 2. Capitalized Bodies: Bioethics, Biopower, and the Practice of Freedom
- II. Refiguring Ethics
- 3. Antigone and Ismene: Hard Heads, Hard Hearts, and the Claim of the Right
- 4. Demeter and Persephone, "Unies Sous le Même Manteau"
- III. Livable Futures
- 5. Eating at the Heart of Ethics
- 6. A Working Life
- IV. Sovereign Bodies: Politics of Wonder or the Right to Be Joyful
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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