Responses to a Pandemic (eBook, ePUB)

Philosophical and Political Reflections
Redaktion: Gotlib, Anna

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What does it mean to be in the middle of a pandemic-for us, for our country, 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. Contributors: Alexios Alexander, J. S. Biehl, Eyja M. Brynjarsdóttir, Daniel Conway, Barrett Emerick, Anna Gotlib, Ruth Groenhout, Claire Katz, Eva Feder Kittay, Corey McCall, Jamie Lindemann Nelson, Jennifer Scuro, Kevin Timpe, Vanessa Wills

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538154052
• Artikelnr.: 65955307

Autorenporträt

Anna Gotlib is associate professor of philosophy at Brooklyn College CUNY. Her areas of research and teaching include feminist bioethics/medical ethics, moral psychology, social and political philosophy. She serves as one of the chief editors of IJFAB (International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics). Her work has appeared in Hypatia, The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Journal of Medical Humanities, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, and several edited collections.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Vanessa Wills 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 Responsibil