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Rethinking Life : Italian Philosophy in Precarious Times : Italian Philosophy in Precarious Times / edited by Silvia Benso.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy.
- SUNY Series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Life.
- Philosophy, Italian.
- Philosophy, Italian--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Fourteen Italian philosophers reflect on how the global experience of vulnerability and precariousness--of which the Covid-19 pandemic is but one example--compels us to rethink life and collective living.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Epidemics, Precariousness, and Vulnerability
- Confronting Disaster
- Cassandra’s Details
- Improvising Self-Expression in the Time of a Contingency That Has Eliminated Contingency
- Out of the Choir
- Metaphor as Illness?
- Vulnerability, Care, and Responsibility
- “The Lungs That We All Are”
- Necropolitics, Care, and the Common
- Lacking Beings
- Vulnerable Existences
- Life and Useless Suffering
- Rethinking Life
- Greek Zèn
- Life and the “Black Swan”
- What Finitude Does Not Say
- Writing Life
- With the Finitude of Life beyond the Phenomenon
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438488172
- 1438488173
- OCLC:
- 1321789309
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