Arendt, Natality and Biopolitics Toward Democratic Plurality and Reproductive Justice

Rosalyn Diprose is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts (Acumen, 2008), Coporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas (SUNY, 2002) and The Bodies of Women: Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Difference (Routledge, 1994).

Ewa Plonowska Ziarek is Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Buffalo, SUNY. She is the author of Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism (Columbia University Press, 2012), An Ethics of Dissensus: Feminism, Postmodernity and the Politics of Radical Democracy (Stanford University Press, 2001), The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism (SUNY, 1995). She is the editor of Grombrowicz's Grimaces: Modernism, Gender, Nationality (SUNY, 1998) and the co-editor of Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis (SUNY, 2005) and Time for the Humanities: Praxis and the Limits of Autonomy (Fordham University Press, 2008) and Intermedialities: Philosophy, Art, Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010).