Rethinking Life

Italian Philosophy in Precarious Times

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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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.This volume gathers fourteen contributions written by Italian philosophers within the context of the precariousness and vulnerability revealed by the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic compels us to rethink what is affected most by this global occurrence yet does not end with it-that is, life. Beyond the geographical, socio-political, and medical contexts in which the reflections originate, Rethinking Life is deeply utopian, presenting aspirations toward a different configuration of life and collective living centered on relational subjectivities, interconnectedness, interdependence, and, ultimately, solidarity. How does the pandemic-what it represents and exposes-call us to rethink our notion of life? How does an episode of morbidity affect a fuller understanding of life? Can such a hermeneutic shift be dared and sustained? The sobriety of the reflections yields elegant, incisive, and direct prose of profound effect and immediacy-and a captivating, lucid, and thought-provoking narrative.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-07-01
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt445 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
Antal sidor250
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438488158

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AcknowledgmentsEpidemics, Precariousness, and Vulnerability: Introductory Remarks toward a Rethinking of LifeSilvia BensoPart I: Confronting Disaster 1. Cassandra's Details: Coronavirus and the Course of GlobalizationLuisa Bonesio2. Improvising Self-Expression in the Time of a Contingency that Has Eliminated ContingencyAlessandro Bertinetto3. Out of the Choir: Bodies Inclined on the PlayboyLorenzo Bernini4. Metaphor as Illness? Life, War, and a Linguistic PharmakonAlberto MartinengoPart II: Vulnerability, Care, and Responsibility 5. "The Lungs that We All Are": Rethinking Life in the Times of a PandemicOlivia Guaraldo6. Necropolitics, Care, and the CommonElia Zaru7. Lacking BeingsLuca Illetterati8. Vulnerable ExistencesCaterina Resta9. Life and Useless Suffering: Responsibility for Others and the Impossible TheodicyRita FulcoPart III: Rethinking Life 10. Greek Zèn: Living Starting from the OriginAlessandra Cislaghi11. Life and the "Black Swan"Enrica Lisciani-Petrini12. What Finitude Does Not Say: Rethinking Life beyond NihilismRoberto Mancini13. Writing Life: Biography, Autobiography, and the RemainderClaudia Baracchi14. With the Finitude of Life beyond the Phenomenon: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and a Metaphysics of the FiniteUgo PeroneContributorsIndex

"This volume represents the best that philosophy has to offer the contemporary world: deeply probing, reflective responses to a world in crisis. The reader will find in these essays precisely the kind of original thought and sensitivity to present and future uncertainty demanded by a global pandemic. Most impressively, they will find a refusal to flee the vulnerability that is our human condition." — Diane Enns, Ryerson University"An extraordinary, timely, provocative, and engrossing volume. Benso collects an exceptional range of Italian voices, all of whom are rooted in their own cultural points of reference yet widely conversant with global thought in a Continental idiom, as they confront philosophically an experience with which we are all grappling." — Jason M. Wirth, Seattle University