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Where Are We Now: The Epidemic as Politics

By Giorgio Agamben

Book information

Publisher
Eris
Year
2021
ISBN
1912475359, 9781912475353
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2077180 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
144\0
Time added
2021-03-02 08:42:54

Description

In this volume, the renowned Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has collected all of his fierce, passionate, and deeeply personal interventions regarding the current health emergency. Alongside and beyond accusations and exact descriptions, these texts variously reflect upon the great transformation affecting Western democracies. In the name of biosecurity and health, the model of bourgeois democracy together with its rights, parliaments, and constitutions is everywhere surrendering to a new despotism where citizens seem to accept unprecedented limitations to their freedoms. This 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 is impossible to see?

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