Michael Lewis

Philosophy, Biopolitics, and the Virus (eBook, ePUB)

The Elision of an Alternative

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Every aspect of the pandemic was said to be 'total,' absolute, and undiscriminating. Its very name implied as much. The virus was everywhere, and a threat to us all. In Philosophy, Biopolitics, and the Virus: The Elision of an Alternative, Michael Lewis identifies three moments within the pandemic that were conceived in such a monolithic way: (1) 'The Science,' which had to be unanimous if it was to assume a sovereign role, and to have us 'follow' it; (2) 'non-pharmaceutical interventions,' which were regarded as the only possible response, without which death and disease would 'run riot'; and (3) the one sole remedy that could bring about the promised end of the restrictions, to the exclusion of every other conception of medicine, treatment, and care. In each case of seeming universality, dissent immediately identifies you as a friend of the virus. And yet if all of these cases have been revealing their counterproductivity ever since, what are we to make of the elision of alternatives? Is it part of a more general tendency to thrust the questioning of hegemonic notions to the margins of respectable discourse, inhabited solely by the mad, bad, and dangerous to know?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666923797
• Artikelnr.: 68097708

Autorenporträt

Michael Lewis is the author of Heidegger and the Place of Ethics (Bloomsbury), Heidegger beyond Deconstruction: On Nature (Bloomsbury), Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing (Edinburgh University Press), and (with Tanja Staehler), Phenomenology: An Introduction (Bloomsbury), along with articles on Agamben, Bataille, Derrida, Esposito, Lacan, Stiegler, and Zizek among others. Educated in Philosophy at the Universities of Warwick and Essex, he has taught philosophy, film, psychoanalysis, and philosophical anthropology at the University of Sussex (2007-9, 2011), University of Warwick (2010), and the University of the West of England (2011-15). He is currently 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