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The virus in the age of madness / Bernard-Henri L�evy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020&#x5dCopyright date: �2020Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 106 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300257380
  • 0300257384
Uniform titles:
  • Ce virus qui rend fou. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 194 23
LOC classification:
  • B2430.L533 C4213 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Come back, Michel Foucault--we need you! -- Divine surprise -- Delicious confinement -- Life, they say -- Goodbye, world?
Summary: A trenchant look at how the coronavirus reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society. With medical mysteries, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe, the coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably altered societies around the world. In this sharp essay, world-renowned philosopher Bernard-Henri L�evy interrogates the many meanings and metaphors we have assigned to the pandemic--and what they tell us about ourselves. Drawing on the philosophical tradition from Plato and Aristotle to Lacan and Foucault, L�evy asks uncomfortable questions about reality and mythology: he rejects the idea that the virus is a warning from nature, the inevitable result of global capitalism; he questions the heroic status of doctors, asking us to think critically about the loci of authority and power; he challenges the panicked polarization that dominates online discourse. Lucid, incisive, and always original, L�evy takes a bird's-eye view of the most consequential historical event of our time and proposes a way to defend human society from threats to our collective future.
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Translated from the French.

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A trenchant look at how the coronavirus reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society. With medical mysteries, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe, the coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably altered societies around the world. In this sharp essay, world-renowned philosopher Bernard-Henri L�evy interrogates the many meanings and metaphors we have assigned to the pandemic--and what they tell us about ourselves. Drawing on the philosophical tradition from Plato and Aristotle to Lacan and Foucault, L�evy asks uncomfortable questions about reality and mythology: he rejects the idea that the virus is a warning from nature, the inevitable result of global capitalism; he questions the heroic status of doctors, asking us to think critically about the loci of authority and power; he challenges the panicked polarization that dominates online discourse. Lucid, incisive, and always original, L�evy takes a bird's-eye view of the most consequential historical event of our time and proposes a way to defend human society from threats to our collective future.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed August 30, 2021).

Come back, Michel Foucault--we need you! -- Divine surprise -- Delicious confinement -- Life, they say -- Goodbye, world?

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