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Rethinking Life: Italian Philosophy in Precarious Times

Rethinking Life: Italian Philosophy in Precarious Times

Benso, Silvia

Paperback

Series: Suny Contemporary Italian Philosophy

PhilosophyItalian History

ISBN10: 1438488165
ISBN13: 9781438488165
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 2 2023
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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