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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Family Values -- Introduction: The Paradox of Love -- Part One: Social Body -- 1 Animal Body Mother -- Biological Imaging -- Crypt of Nature -- 2 Maternal Law -- Mother's Tongue -- Paternal Mother -- Body Language -- Part Two: Body Politic -- 3 No Body Father -- Virile Subjectivity -- Battle of Wills -- Father's Rights -- 4 Paternal Eros -- Fatherhood's Promise -- Soul Responsibility -- Postscript: Family Values and Social Subjectivity -- Endnotes -- References -- Index

The central aim of this book is to approach contemporary problems raised by technologies of life and death as ethical issues that call for a more nuanced approach than mainstream philosophy can provide. To do so, it draws on the recently published seminars of Jacques Derrida to analyze the extremes of birth and dying insofar as they are mediated by technologies of life and death. With an eye to reproductive technologies, it shows how a deconstructive approach can change the very terms of contemporary debates over technologies of life and death, from cloning to surrogate motherhood to capital p

Eloquently arguing that we cannot explain the development of individuality or subjectivity apart from its social context, Kelly Oliver makes a powerful case for recognizing the social aspects of alienation and the psychic aspects of oppression. Oliver explores the ways in which the alienation unique to oppression leads to depression or violence; and how these affects can be transformed into agency, individuality, solidarity, and community

1. Opaque texts and transparent contexts : the political difference of Julia Kristeva / Alice Jardine -- 2. Kristeva's delphic proposal : practice encompasses the ethical / Jean Graybeal -- 3. Julia Kristeva : take two / Jacqueline Rose -- 4. Kristeva and Levinas : mourning, ethics, and the feminine / Ewa Ziarek -- 5. Identification with the divided mother : Kristeva's ambivalence / Allison Weir -- 6. Renaissance paintings and psychoanalysis : Julia Kristeva and the function of the mother / Mary Bittner Wiseman -- 7. Abject strangers : toward an ethics of respect / Noelle Mcafee -- 8. National abjects : Julia Kristeva on the process of political self-id / Norma Claire Moruzzi -- 9. Des Chinoises : orientalism, psychoanalysis, and feminine writing / Lisa Lowe -- 10. The body politics of Julia Kristeva / Judith Butler -- 11. Kristeva's politics of change : tracking essentialism with the help of a sex/gender map / Tina Chanter -- 12. Toward a feminist postmodern Polethique : Kristeva on ethics and politics / Marilyn Edelstein -- 13. Trans-positions of difference : Kristeva and post-structuralism / Tilottama Rajan -- 14. Transgression in theory : genius and the subject of La Revolution du langage poetique / Suzanne Guerlac.