Where Are We Now?: The Epidemic as Politics
Autor Giorgio Agamben Traducere de Valeria Danien Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 mai 2021
Alongside and beyond accusations, these texts reflect upon the great transformation affecting Western democracies. In the name of biosecurity and health, the model of bourgeois democracy-together with its rights, institutions, and constitutions-is surrendering everywhere to a new despotism where citizens accept unprecedented limitations to their freedoms.
The push to accept this new normal leads to the urgency of the volume's title: Where Are We Now? For how long will we accept living in a constantly extended state of exception, the end of which remains impossible to see?
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781538157596
ISBN-10: 1538157594
Pagini: 106
Dimensiuni: 138 x 218 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1538157594
Pagini: 106
Dimensiuni: 138 x 218 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Introduction
1. The Invention of an Epidemic
2. Contagion
3. Clarifications
4. Where Are We Now?
5. Reflections on the Plague
6. The Epidemic Shows That the State of Exception Has Become the Rule
7. Social Distancing
8. A Question
9. Bare Life
10. New Reflections
11. On Truth and Falsity
12. Medicine as Religion
13. Biosecurity and Politics
14. Polemos Epidemios
15. Requiem for the Students
16. Two Infamous Terms
17. Law and Life
18. State of Emergency and State of Exception
19. The Face and the Mask
20. What Is Fear?
21. On the Time to Come
1. The Invention of an Epidemic
2. Contagion
3. Clarifications
4. Where Are We Now?
5. Reflections on the Plague
6. The Epidemic Shows That the State of Exception Has Become the Rule
7. Social Distancing
8. A Question
9. Bare Life
10. New Reflections
11. On Truth and Falsity
12. Medicine as Religion
13. Biosecurity and Politics
14. Polemos Epidemios
15. Requiem for the Students
16. Two Infamous Terms
17. Law and Life
18. State of Emergency and State of Exception
19. The Face and the Mask
20. What Is Fear?
21. On the Time to Come
Recenzii
What happens when health replaces salvation, biological life replaces eternal life, and social distancing displaces community? These are theological as well as political questions, and Agamben has correctly brought them to our attention.
An on-the-spot study of the link between power and knowledge.
A fascinating intervention on the encroaching state of biosecurity we are witnessing before our very eyes.
Fear makes thinking harder, yet there is an urgent need to think and to question every aspect of our current situation. The philosopher, which Agamben truly embodies, is a figure that must be heeded.
Agamben's book title emphasizes a vital but all too often unappreciated question. By way of answer, he worries that we are collectively and individually in a very dangerous place that, contrary to popular opinion, has little to do with a virus or pandemic."
Agamben is right that our rulers will use every opportunity to consolidate their power, especially in times of crisis. That coronavirus is being exploited to strengthen mass-surveillance infrastructure is no secret.
Agamben's work is finding new relevance among those who are beginning to question not only the gravity of the virus but also the legitimacy of state responses to it. Agamben is certainly not a 'virus denier'. . . but he does question the use of 'pandemic' to legitimate a certain shift in governing paradigms that will have far-reaching consequences . . . When sitting on a park bench with a friend is technically a crime, we need a voice like Agamben's to remind us what we have lost among all the so-called 'gains.'
An on-the-spot study of the link between power and knowledge.
A fascinating intervention on the encroaching state of biosecurity we are witnessing before our very eyes.
Fear makes thinking harder, yet there is an urgent need to think and to question every aspect of our current situation. The philosopher, which Agamben truly embodies, is a figure that must be heeded.
Agamben's book title emphasizes a vital but all too often unappreciated question. By way of answer, he worries that we are collectively and individually in a very dangerous place that, contrary to popular opinion, has little to do with a virus or pandemic."
Agamben is right that our rulers will use every opportunity to consolidate their power, especially in times of crisis. That coronavirus is being exploited to strengthen mass-surveillance infrastructure is no secret.
Agamben's work is finding new relevance among those who are beginning to question not only the gravity of the virus but also the legitimacy of state responses to it. Agamben is certainly not a 'virus denier'. . . but he does question the use of 'pandemic' to legitimate a certain shift in governing paradigms that will have far-reaching consequences . . . When sitting on a park bench with a friend is technically a crime, we need a voice like Agamben's to remind us what we have lost among all the so-called 'gains.'
Notă biografică
Giorgio Agamben is a philosopher and political theorist who has been described as "one of the most vital and most discussed figures in academia". Renowned for his insights into the history and contemporary crises of Western thought, his many works include The End of the Poem (Stanford University Press), Infancy and History (Verso Books), State of Exception (The University of Chicago Press), and The Use of Bodies (Stanford University Press), the latter of which brought to a conclusion his nine-volume Homo Sacer series. Currently based in Italy, he has held a number of distinguished academic posts, including the Baruch Spinoza Chair at the European Graduate School.