The Care of Life: Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Bioethics and Biopolitics

Content: Introduction: Life: who cares? / Giuseppe Bianco, with Miguel de Beistegui --
A brief history of bioethics / Guillaume Le Blanc --
Between (bio)-politics and (bio)-ethics: what life? / Luca Paltrinieri --
What is vital? / Frédéric Worms --
The return of vitalism: Canguilhem, Bergson and the project of a biophilosophy / Charles T. Wolfe and Andy Wong --
Life and objective norms: Caguilhem in the context of contemporary meta-ethics / Sander Werkhoven --
Critical and political stakes of a philosophy of norms: part I: towards a critical philosophy of norms / Julien Pieron --
Critical and political stakes of a philosophy of norms: part II: theory of norms and social criticism / Florence Caeymaex --
The racial politics of life itself: Goldstein, Uexküll, Canguilhem and Fanon / Robert Bernasconi --
History and the politics of "life" / Claudia Stein and Roger Cooter --
Life of pain: remarks about negativity and effort in Georges Canguilhem / Giuseppe Bianco --
Human life and subjectivity: learning from Foucault / Piergiorgio Donatelli --
Ethics of care and face transplants: after Levinas, Deleuze and Guattari / Marjorie Gracieuse --
Ageing and longevity / Paul-Antoine Miquel --
Generational change as a vehicle for radical conceptual change: the case for periodic rejuvenation / Steve Fuller --
Sexuality and liberalism / Patrick Singy --
Desire within and beyond biopolitics / Miquel de Beistegui --
The pragmatics of desire and pleasure: rethinking somatic powers with Foucalt, Deleuze and Guattari / Marjorie Gracieuse and Nicolae Morar --
Revenge of the tender pervert: on a troubling concept that refuses to go away / Hector Kollias --
Jouissance in Lacan's seminar XX: Progelomena to a new reading of strange enjoyment and being an angel / Lorenzo Chiesa.