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Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical Amy Swiffen

Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical By Amy Swiffen

Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical by Amy Swiffen


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Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical explores the emerging consensus that legal authority is no longer related to national sovereignty but to the common good of a political community and the moral attempt to nurture life.

Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical Summary

Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical by Amy Swiffen

Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical explores the idea that legal authority is no longer related to national sovereignty, but to the moral attempt to nurture life. The book argues that whilst the relationship between law and ethics has long been a central concern in legal studies, it is now the relationship between law and life that is becoming crucial. The waning legitimacy of conventional conceptions of sovereignty is signalled the renewal of a version of natural law, evident in discourses of human rights, that de-emphasises the role of a divine law-giver in favour of an Aristotelian conception of the natural purpose of life and the common good. Synthesising elements of legal scholarship on sovereignty, theories of biopolitics and biopower, as well as recent developments in the domains of ethics, Amy Swiffen examines the invocation of life as a foundation for legal authority. The book documents the connection between law, life and contemporary forms of biopolitical power by critically analysing the fundamental principles of the bioethical paradigm. Unique in its critical and cross-disciplinary approach, Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical will be of interest to students and teachers in the areas of law and society, law and literature, critical legal studies, social theory, bioethics, psychoanalysis, and biopolitics.

About Amy Swiffen

Amy Swiffen is an Assistant Professor of Law and Society in the Department of Sociologyand Anthropologyat Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Her research is focused onnew legal contexts and has been published in a wide variety of academic and professional journals.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Law and Ethics 2. Law without a Lawgiver 3. Ethics and the Good 4. Goodbye to Kant 5. Law and Life 6. Law and Violence. Conclusion: A Future Uncertain

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NPB9780415578448
9780415578448
0415578442
Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical by Amy Swiffen
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2010-12-17
122
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