TY  - BOOK
AU  - L�evy,Bernard-Henri
AU  - Kennedy,Steven B.
TI  - The virus in the age of madness
SN  - 9780300257380
AV  - B2430.L533 C4213 2020
U1  - 194 23
PY  - 2020///&#x5d
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - COVID-19 (Disease)
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Philosophy, French
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Epidemics
KW  - Mass media
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Essays
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Come back, Michel Foucault--we need you! -- Divine surprise -- Delicious confinement -- Life, they say -- Goodbye, world?
N2  - 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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