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  • Where Are We Now?: The Epidemic as Politics

    Where Are We Now? by Agamben, Giorgio; Dani, Valeria;

    The Epidemic as Politics

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    Long description:

    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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    Table of Contents:

    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

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