Silvia Benso 
Rethinking Life [EPUB ebook] 
Italian Philosophy in Precarious Times

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

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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.