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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Acknowledgments
Epidemics, Precariousness, and Vulnerability: Introductory Remarks toward a Rethinking of Life
Silvia Benso
Part I: Confronting Disaster
1. Cassandra’s Details: Coronavirus and the Course of Globalization
Luisa Bonesio
2. Improvising Self-Expression in the Time of a Contingency that Has Eliminated Contingency
Alessandro Bertinetto
3. Out of the Choir: Bodies Inclined on the Playboy
Lorenzo Bernini
4. Metaphor as Illness? Life, War, and a Linguistic Pharmakon
Alberto Martinengo
Part II: Vulnerability, Care, and Responsibility
5. 'The Lungs that We All Are’: Rethinking Life in the Times of a Pandemic
Olivia Guaraldo
6. Necropolitics, Care, and the Common
Elia Zaru
7. Lacking Beings
Luca Illetterati
8. Vulnerable Existences
Caterina Resta
9. Life and Useless Suffering: Responsibility for Others and the Impossible Theodicy
Rita Fulco
Part III: Rethinking Life
10. Greek Zèn: Living Starting from the Origin
Alessandra Cislaghi
11. Life and the 'Black Swan’
Enrica Lisciani-Petrini
12. What Finitude Does Not Say: Rethinking Life beyond Nihilism
Roberto Mancini
13. Writing Life: Biography, Autobiography, and the Remainder
Claudia Baracchi
14. With the Finitude of Life beyond the Phenomenon: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and a Metaphysics of the Finite
Ugo Perone
Contributors
Index
O autorze
Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author and editor of many books, including coeditor (with Elvira Roncalli) of
Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers: Stretching the Art of Thinking, also published by SUNY Press.
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