Thou shalt not kill7/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Interpreting the prohibition of murder in the context of Levinas’s ethics, Scola proposes what Cavarero calls an 'absolutist' interpretation of such prohibition and argues for its applicability both to suicide and to reproduction. The remarkable dialogue Scola and Cavarero between demonstrates the ethical, theological, and the political stakes of the prohibition of killing. Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, author of Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernismįeminist perspective.” -Alessia Ricciardi, Northwestern University This is an indispensable book for anyone interested in the contemporary debates about ethics, biopolitics, and bioethics. ![]() Instead of ethical relationality, such an absolute application of the prohibition of killing, all too often coexisting with the justifications of just or preemptive war, leads to the valorization of impersonal biologism. By contrast, Cavarero brilliantly demonstrates the incoherence of such an interpretation, particularly in the context of new reproductive technologies, medical technologies, and modern warfare. “Thou Shalt Not Kill represents an exceptionally original contribution to the study of contemporary Western culture seen from both a religious and a secularįeminist perspective.” -Alessia Ricciardi, Northwestern University ![]()
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