An All Too Human Virus 1st Edition by Jean Luc Nancy ISBN 9781509550210 1509550216

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ISBN 10: 1509550216
ISBN 13: 9781509550210
Author: Jean Luc Nancy

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.

An All Too Human Virus 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. An All-Too-Human Virus

2. ‘Communovirus’

3. Let Us Be Infants

4. Evil and Power

5. Freedom

6. Neoviralism

7. To Free Freedom

8. The Useful and the Useless

9. Still All Too Human

Experience

Self-Sufficiency

Bioculture

Equality

The Point

Appendix 1. Interview with Nicolas Dutent

Appendix 2. From the Future to the Time to Come: The Revolution of the Virus, with Jean-François Bouthors

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