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In recent decades there has been an explosion in work in the social and physical sciences describing the similarities between human and nonhuman as well as human and non-animal thinking. In this work, Ruth Miller argues that these types of phenomena are also useful models for thinking about the growth, reproduction, and spread of political thought and democratic processes. By shifting her level of analysis from the politics of self-determining subjects to the realm of material environments and information systems, Miller asks what might happen if these alternative, nonhuman thought processes become the normative thought processes of democratic engagement.

Bioethics. --- Biology --- Reproduction --- Reproductive rights. --- Sociobiology. --- Political aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Biologism --- Human biology --- Human evolution --- Psychology, Comparative --- Social evolution --- Reproductive freedom --- Sexual rights --- Abortion --- Birth control --- Contraception --- Human reproduction --- Involuntary sterilization --- Amphimixis --- Generation --- Pangenesis --- Procreation --- Life (Biology) --- Physiology --- Sex (Biology) --- Embryology --- Generative organs --- Theriogenology --- Bioethics --- Life sciences --- Biomass --- Natural history --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences ethics --- Science --- Social aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects

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Taking natural disaster as the political and legal norm is uncommon. Taking a person who has become unstable and irrational during a disaster as the starting point for legal analysis is equally uncommon. Nonetheless, in Law in Crisis Ruth Miller makes the unsettling case that the law demands an ecstatic subject and that natural disaster is the endpoint to law. Developing an idiosyncratic but compelling new theory of legal and political existence, Miller challenges existing arguments that, whether valedictory or critical, have posited the rational, bounded self as the normative subject of law. By bringing a distinctive, accessible reading of contemporary political philosophy to bear on source material in several European and Middle Eastern languages, Miller constructs a cogent analysis of natural disaster and its role in modern subject formation. In the process, she opens up exciting new lines of inquiry in the fields of law, politics, and gender studies. Law in Crisis represents a promising new development in the interdisciplinary study of law.

Law --- Subjectivity. --- Natural disasters --- Law and politics --- Subjectivism --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Relativity --- Jurisprudence --- Philosophy. --- Law and legislation. --- Political aspects.

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It is possible to imagine a theory of democracy and a constitutional history independent of human subjectivity.

Democracy --- Communication and traffic --- Transportation, Automotive --- Constitutional law. --- Constitutional history. --- Philosophy. --- Political aspects.

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"Challenging the posthumanist canon which celebrates the pre-eminence of matter, Ruth Miller, inFlourishingThoughtargues that what nonhuman systems contribute to democracy is thought. Drawing on recent feminist theories of nonhuman life and politics, Miller shows that reproduction and flourishing are not antithetical to contemplation and sensitivity. After demonstrating processes of life and processes of thought are indistinguishable, Miller finds that four menacing accumulations of matter and information--global surveillance, stored embryos, human clones, and reproductive trash--are politically productive rather than threats to democratic politics. As a consequence, she questions the usefulness of individual rights such as privacy and dignity, contests the value of the rational metaphysics underlying human-centered political participation, and re-evaluates the gender relations that derive from this type of participation. Ultimately, in place of these human-centered structures, Miller posits a more meditative mode of democratic engagement. Miller's argument has shattering implications for the debates over the proper use and disposal of embryonic tissue, alarms about data gathering by the state and corporations, and other major ethical, social, and security issues"--

Democracy --- Feminist theory. --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Philosophy --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.