Giorgio Agamben

Where Are We Now?

The Epidemic as Politics - Second Updated Edition
Übersetzer: Dani, Valeria

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, Agamben has collected all of his fierce, passionate, and deeply personal interventions regarding the current health emergency.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ERIS
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 138mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 180g
• ISBN-13: 9781912475353
• ISBN-10: 1912475359
• Artikelnr.: 61151097

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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