Michael Lewis

Philosophy, Biopolitics, and the Virus

The Elision of an Alternative

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book isolates three moments within the epidemicâ â the Science,â non-pharmaceutical intervention, and pharmaceutic remediesâ and shows how each of these unities came to immunise itself against alternative proposals. Michael Lewis demonstrates the auto-immune and counter-productive effects of this approach.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781666923780
• ISBN-10: 1666923788
• Artikelnr.: 68177546

Autorenporträt

Michael Lewis is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Invention of an Epidemic
Chapter 2: Statistics and their Vicissitudes
Chapter 3: The Unity of the Non-Pharmaceutical Response
Chapter 4: The Paradox of Immune Community, from Deconstruction to
Biopolitics
Chapter 5: Exposure and the Question of Sacrifice
Chapter 6: Giorgio Agamben: Against Sacrifice and the Logic of
Auto-immunity
Conclusion: Beyond the Epidemic as Politics
Postlude: The Closure of the Logos