What World Is This? - A Pandemic Phenomenology

Judith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequences-political, social, ecological, economic-challenge us to develop a new account of interdependency. Butler argues for a radical social equality and advocates modes of resistance that seek to establish new conditions of livability and a new sense of a shared world.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Senses of the World: Scheler and Merleau-Ponty
2. Powers in the Pandemic: Reflections on Restricted Life
3. Intertwining as Ethics and Politics
4. Grievability for the Living
Postscript: Transformations
Notes
Index

About the author

Judith Butler is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. They are the author of several books, most recently The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind (2020). Butler’s previous Columbia University Press books include Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (2012), Antigone’s Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (2000), and Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (1987).

Summary

Judith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequences—political, social, ecological, economic—challenge us to develop a new account of interdependency. Butler argues for a radical social equality and advocates modes of resistance that seek to establish new conditions of livability and a new sense of a shared world.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Butler
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9780231208291
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20829-1
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Infectious & contagious diseases, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Infectious and contagious diseases, Phenomenology and Existentialism