Virality of Evil - Philosophy in the Time of a Pandemic

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Divya Dwivedi Klappentext The authors of this insightful and urgent collection both use the metaphor of evil as a virus or contagion and conceptualize the COVID-19 virus as a manifestation of evil to reconsider the purpose of philosophy in and for a pandemic. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION - DIVYA DWIVEDI PART I - Acts of Evil 1. Up Against the Wall - JEAN-LUC NANCY 2. Modal of Lost responsibilities - DIVYA DWIVEDI 3. Badly exhausted - MARCIA SÁ CAVALCANTE SCHUBACK 4. Mirages of the act - JAN VÖLKER 5. Is Evil an Illusion? - SERGIO BENVENUTO PART II - Who is Evil: of hostice, hosts and parasites 6. Evil, Time, Human - FEDERICO FERRARI 7. From Panic to Ecological Immunity - OSAMU NISHITANI 8. Life, Knowledge and Fear in the Context of Covid19 - JUAN M. GARRIDO WAINER 9. "The World is a Vampire:" Of Pandemics and Parasites - S. ROMI MUKHERJEE 10. Vulnerability or naked life? Political imagination during the pandemic - TADEUSZ KOCZANOWICZ PART III - Viral Discriminations, or where is evil? 11. Sad Tropics, Sad Planet: Covid19 - GOMDAOGO PIERRE NAKOULIMA 12. Phobos: evil and urgency in a conflictual pandemic - M. LUCÍA RIVERA SANÍN 13. It would be nice to testify that we are aware of our night - PARHAM SHAHRJERDI 14. "Shuffering and shmiling" Life, disease and death in Burkina Faso - AÏDAS SANOGO PART IV - Sighting Evil 15. The proximity of death and the remoteness of totality - IVANA PERICA 16. "... but (let's) deliver-us from Evil" : From "Pandemic" Evil to Evil as "Pandemisation" - BENEDETTA TODARO 17. The Revenge of Nature? On the Coronavirus and "Natural Evil" - DANIEL J. SMITH 18. Don't, or the thought cat'apostrophed, ANGEL DELREZ Index

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• Authors: Divya Dwivedi
• Assisted by: Divya Dwivedi (Editor), Dwivedi Divya (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781538164709
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6470-9
• No. of pages: 174
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Psychoanalytical & Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis