Where Are We Now?

The Epidemic as Politics

AvGiorgio Agamben

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Renowned Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben presents his fierce, passionate, and deeply personal commentaries regarding the 2020 health emergency as it played out in Italy and across the world.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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Utgivningsdatum:2021-05-18
Mått:148 x 227 x 13 mm
Vikt:268 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:104
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781538157596
Översättare:Valeria Dani

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Giorgio Agamben is a contemporary Italian philosopher and political theorist whose original works have gained critical acclaim and have been translated into numerous languages. His most recent books are Creation and Anarchy: The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism and What Is Real? Agamben is a frequent contributor to numerous international newspapers and other media.

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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.

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Introduction1. The Invention of an Epidemic2. Contagion3. Clarifications4. Where Are We Now?5. Reflections on the Plague6. The Epidemic Shows That the State of Exception Has Become the Rule7. Social Distancing8. A Question9. Bare Life10. New Reflections11. On Truth and Falsity12. Medicine as Religion13. Biosecurity and Politics14. Polemos Epidemios15. Requiem for the Students16. Two Infamous Terms17. Law and Life18. State of Emergency and State of Exception19. The Face and the Mask20. What Is Fear?21. On the Time to Come