The politics of death

"On Life After the "End of History

Bibliographic Data

ID2973117
AuthorsPaolo Palladino (0000-0001-8001-6691, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume7
Issue3
Pages321-325
Publication date2003-07-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal for Cultural Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1479-7585 • E-ISSN: 1740-1666
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1479758032000135988
OpenAlexW1968730034
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited15

In this paper, the most recent writings by Giorgio Agamben and Bruno Latour are brought into dialog by examining what light they shed on contemporary debates concerning “end of life” decisions. More specifically, the paper focuses on the debates sparked by Diane Pretty's request for a grant of immunity against legal prosecution if her husband were to assist her to commit suicide and so terminate her increasingly unbearable suffering from motor neurone disease. The aim of this exercise is to articulate the presuppositions informing two influential and radically opposed views on the contemporary reconfiguration of relationships between humans, animals and other non-humans

Aesthetics · Commit · Contemporary history · Contemporary society · Dialog box · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Presupposition · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology

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