Screen LibraryResponses to a pandemic : philosophical and political reflections /
"This book offers a unique collection of philosophers engaging in public philosophy, offering responses to, and reflections on, the moral, political, social, and medical dilemmas born of the COVID-19 pandemic"--
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Rowman & Littlefield,
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| Publisher Address: | Lanham, MD : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"This book offers a unique collection of philosophers engaging in public philosophy, offering responses to, and reflections on, the moral, political, social, and medical dilemmas born of the COVID-19 pandemic"-- What does it mean to be in the middle of a pandemic--for us, for our communities, or for the world? How do our current inequalities and injustices become amplified by the demands of the pandemic, and what, if anything, can be done? Who is most impacted--and why does it seem that so many of the same people are, once again, deemed expendable and "less than"? How do we explain COVID-19 and its attendant traumas to our children, and what do we teach them about hope, justice, grief, and the role of imagination in survival? And once the worst has passed, how do we start again, and what should we care about as we contemplate individual and collective repair? In this collection of public and political philosophy, philosophers come together to address these and other questions born of a devastating pandemic, to which they are neither objective spectators nor external observers insulated by the passage of time. The contributors to this volume are both grounded in, and immediately affected by, their own lived realities as source material for the questions that move and motivate them--back cover. |
| Carrier Form: | xxiv, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781538154045 1538154048 9781538154069 1538154064 |
| Index Number: | RA644 |
| CLC: | R512.93-05 |
| Call Number: | R512.93-05/R434 |
| Contents: | In medias res: philosophers as witnesses to disaster / Anna Gotlib -- Part I: Pandemic selves : Chapter 1: The new normals: solidarity, recognition, and vulnerable selves in the COVID-19 pandemic -- Chapter 2: COVID-19 and the politics of home / Corey McCall -- Chapter 3: Waiting to say goodbye / J.S. Biehl -- Part II: Pandemic, illness, and disability : Chapter 4: Sometimes life gives you way too many lemons: an observation in nine parts / Ruth Groenhout -- Chapter 5: The nightmare of triage and discrimination: whose benefit is to be maximized? / Eva Feder Kittay -- Chapter 6: Disability and disproportionate disadvantage / Kevin Timpe -- Part III: Pandemic, precariousness, and social justice : Chapter 7: We survived COVID-19! (possibly) / Jamie Lindemann Nelson -- Chapter 8: New labors, new burdens: care work re-narrated / Jennifer Scuro -- Chapter 9: Boundaries of democratic life in a time of pandemic / Alexios Alexander -- Part IV: Pandemic, philosophy, and meaning : Chapter 10: More than mere survival: ethical responsibility and the intersubjectivity of the humanities / Claire Elise Katz -- Chapter 11: Who will I be after all this is over? / Barrett Emerick -- Chapter 12: The COVID-19 guidebook for living in an alternate universe / Eyja M. Brynjarsdóttir -- Chapter 13: Viral hope: when quarantine comes home / Daniel Conway. |