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?
Les mer
The Epidemic as Politics
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9798881853457
Publisert
2025
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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