Epidemics and Pandemics : Philosophical Perspectives.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicoletti, Michele.

Contributor:

Palazzo, Alessandro.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Pandemics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, 2024.

Summary:

This book, edited by Michele Nicoletti and Alessandro Palazzo, explores the philosophical dimensions of epidemics and pandemics. It examines historical and contemporary perspectives, including the politics of plague from ancient times to the COVID-19 pandemic. The book delves into philosophical inquiries about the nature of disease, contagion theories, and societal responses to pandemics. It also addresses how pandemics have been interpreted across various cultures and intellectual traditions. The work aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the philosophical implications of pandemics, making it a valuable resource for scholars in philosophy, history, and the social sciences. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Intro

Epidemics and Pandemics: Philosophical Perspectives. What's Philosophy Got to Do with It? Naomi Zack

Introduction. Michele Nicoletti, Alessandro Palazzo

1. Thucydides and the Politics of Plague. Mauro Bonazzi

2. Between Religion and Science. The Debate on the Concept of Contagion in the Medieval Islamic World and its Western Parallels. Marco Di Branco

3. Pestilences and Contagious Diseases in the Middle Ages. Albert the Great and the Fourteenth-Century Plague Treatises. Alessandro Palazzo

4. Latin-into-Hebrew Treatises on the Black Death. Diana Di Segni

5. Contagion and Pandemics. Plague in Early Modern Medical Thought. Concetta Pennuto

6. New Sciences and Old Diseases. Seventeenth-Century Readings of the Causes of the Plague. Mariangela Priarolo

7. Contagion and Epidemics in Twentieth-Century Thought. A Hypothesis about Bergson. Fabrizio Meroi

8. Zoonosis. Carlo Brentari

9. Fear and Dispossession. Michele Nicoletti

10. The Mimetic Faculty Reloaded: Contagion, Immunization, Conspiracies in the Age of Viral Reproduction. Nidesh Lawtoo

11. Crisis of the Subject in Mediated Communication. Ľudmila Lacková

12. The Epistemology of Models in the Era of Pandemic. Federico Laudisa

13. The COVID-19 Pandemic. An Exogenous Shock into Political Systems in the Middle East and North Africa? Pejman Abdolmohammadi

Conclusion. Michele Nicoletti, Alessandro Palazzo.

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ISBN:

9782503598932

2503598935

OCLC:

1446129216