Care, control and Covid-19 health and biopolitics in philosophy and literature

This volume sheds light on the social and cultural transformations that accompanied the Covid-19 crisis by looking at health and biopolitics from a philosophical and literary perspective. The biopolitical measures taken globally in response to the crisis have led to previously unheard-of restrictio...

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Körperschaften: Conference on Health Biopolitics in Literature and Philosophy (VerfasserIn), Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG (Verlag)
Weitere Verfasser: Marling, Raili (HerausgeberIn), Pajević, Marko (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Berlin, Boston De Gruyter 2023
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Zusammenfassung:This volume sheds light on the social and cultural transformations that accompanied the Covid-19 crisis by looking at health and biopolitics from a philosophical and literary perspective. The biopolitical measures taken globally in response to the crisis have led to previously unheard-of restrictions in liberal societies, resulting in deep and potentially lasting transformations both in social structures and interpersonal relationships. Many researchers have addressed the Covid-19 crisis as a political or epidemiological challenge, but few have paid sufficient attention to the culturally specific reactions and cultural representations of the human beings at the centre of events. Literary analyses capture this human component and give insights into different reactions to, and protests against, the health-political measures addressing the crisis. This book puts the notion of biopolitics, first extensively theorised in the 1970s, to work in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, and uses literary case studies as starting points for discussions of contemporary politics, media, and legal and surveillance regimes. It brings together eleven scholars from six countries with the shared aim of combining literary and philosophical expertise to create a better understanding of the changes in society and political attitudes induced by the ongoing pandemic
Beschreibung:VII, 278 Seiten
23 cm x 15.5 cm
ISBN:9783110799279
978-3-11-079927-9
3110799278
3-11-079927-8