Rethinking Life: Italian Philosophy in Precarious Times

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Rethinking Life: Italian Philosophy in Precarious Times is written by Silvia Benso and published by Suny Contemporary Italian Phil. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1438488165 (ISBN 10) and 9781438488165 (ISBN 13).

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.