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An All-Too-Human Virus

Af: Jean-Luc Nancy Engelsk Paperback

An All-Too-Human Virus

Af: Jean-Luc Nancy Engelsk Paperback
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In the past, pandemics were considered divine punishment, but we now understand the biological characteristics of viruses and we know they are spread through social interaction. What used to be divine has become human – all too human, as Nietzsche would say. But while the virus dispels the divine, we are discovering that living beings are more complex and harder to define than we had previously imagined, and also that political power is more complex than we may have thought. And this, argues Nancy, helps us to see why the term ‘biopolitics’ fails to grasp the conditions in which we now find ourselves. Life and politics challenge us together. Our scientific knowledge tells us that we are dependent only on our own technical power, but can we rely on technologies when knowledge itself includes uncertainties? If this is the case for technical power, it is much more so for political power, even when it presents itself as guided by objective data. The virus is a magnifying glass that reveals the contradictions, limitations and frailties of the human condition, calling into question as never before our stubborn belief in progress and our hubristic sense of our own indestructibility as a species.
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In the past, pandemics were considered divine punishment, but we now understand the biological characteristics of viruses and we know they are spread through social interaction. What used to be divine has become human – all too human, as Nietzsche would say. But while the virus dispels the divine, we are discovering that living beings are more complex and harder to define than we had previously imagined, and also that political power is more complex than we may have thought. And this, argues Nancy, helps us to see why the term ‘biopolitics’ fails to grasp the conditions in which we now find ourselves. Life and politics challenge us together. Our scientific knowledge tells us that we are dependent only on our own technical power, but can we rely on technologies when knowledge itself includes uncertainties? If this is the case for technical power, it is much more so for political power, even when it presents itself as guided by objective data. The virus is a magnifying glass that reveals the contradictions, limitations and frailties of the human condition, calling into question as never before our stubborn belief in progress and our hubristic sense of our own indestructibility as a species.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 100
ISBN-13: 9781509550227
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1509550224
Kategori: Politisk forskning og teori
Udg. Dato: 5 nov 2021
Længde: 12mm
Bredde: 190mm
Højde: 124mm
Forlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Oplagsdato: 5 nov 2021
Forfatter(e): Jean-Luc Nancy
Forfatter(e) Jean-Luc Nancy

Kategori Politisk forskning og teori

ISBN-13 9781509550227

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 100

Udgave

Længde 12mm

Bredde 190mm

Højde 124mm

Udg. Dato 5 nov 2021

Oplagsdato 5 nov 2021

Forlag John Wiley and Sons Ltd

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