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  • Biolegality

    A Critical Introduction

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the empirical and theoretical problems posed by the encounter between law and biology in the twenty-first century. How does biotechnology and new bioscientific knowledge affect our legal institutions, our sense of justice, and our ways of relating to one another? To answer these questions, authors Marc de Leeuw and Sonja van Wichelen examine the ... Read more

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  • Personhood in the Age of Biolegality

    Brave New Law

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume showcases emerging interdisciplinary scholarship that captures the complex ways in which biological knowledge is testing the nature and structure of legal personhood. Key questions include: What do the new biosciences do to our social, cultural, and legal conceptions of personhood? How does our legal apparatus incorporate new legitimations from the emerging biosciences into its ... Read more

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  • Reading Ricoeur through Law

    Series series Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
    Reading Ricoeur through Law, edited by Marc de Leeuw, George H. Taylor, and Eileen Brennan, is the first collection of essays solely focused on Ricoeur’s thinking about law, bringing together both established and emerging scholars to offer a systematic and critical examination of Ricoeur’s legal thinking. The chapters not only explore the specific contribution Ricoeur makes to the field of ... Read more

    $34.89 USD

  • Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason

    Poetics, Praxis, and Critique

    Series series Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
    Poetics, Praxis and Critique: Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason addresses contemporary problems of justice, the recognition of disabled persons, the role of imagination in political judgment, the need for religious hospitality and carnal hermeneutics. The essays in this volume are a testament to the power of hermeneutical reason. Following Paul Ricoeur’s style of philosophizing, they ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Paul Ricoeur’s Renewal of Philosophical Anthropology

    Vulnerability, Capability, Justice

    by Marc de Leeuw ...
    Series series Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
    In Paul Ricoeur's Renewal of Philosophical Anthropology: Vulnerability, Capability, Justice, Marc de Leeuw argues that Ricoeur’s philosophical project integrates the anthropological tradition while renewing its importance as a hermeneutic anthropology of human capability. Ricoeur posits that our cogito is neither its own absolute master, nor fully transparent to itself, inflicting a “wound” (brisé ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • A Companion to Bioethics

    Edited by Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to Philosophy
    This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and ... Read more

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    Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century

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    When Bioethics Stole Medicine

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    Series series Basic Bioethics
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  • Seizing the Means of Reproduction

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