Description: Preexisting Conditions Recounting the Plague by Samuel Weber "Plagues and pandemics confront societies with something they often seek to deny, namely that mortality and vulnerability is not just an individual concern. The narratives examined in this book both confirm the desire to avoid this recognition as well as the different ways it asserts itself nevertheless"-- FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A stunning philosophical and literary account of canonical plague talesMany are the losses suffered and lives lost during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2020, writers around the globe have penned essays and books that make sense of this medical and public health catastrophe. But few have addressed a pressing question that precedes and is the foundation of their writings: How does the very act of narrating the pandemic offer strategies to confront and contend with the pandemics present dangers? What narratives have been offered during past plague and pandemic times to ease suffering and loss and protect individuals and communities from a life lived under the most precarious of conditions? The philosopher and literary and cultural critic Samuel Weber returns to past narratives of plagues and pandemics to reproduce the myriad ways individual and collective, historical and actual, intentional and unintentional forces converge to reveal how cultures and societies deal with their vulnerability and mortality. The "preexisting conditions"-a phrase taken from the American healthcare industry-of these very cultures converge and collide with the urgent situations of individuals confronting the plague. Texts drawn from the Bible, Sophocles, Thucydides, Boccaccio, Luther, Defoe, Kleist, Hlderlin, Artaud, and Camus demonstrate how in the process of narration individuals come to reconsider their relationship to others, to themselves, and to the collectives to which they belong and on which they depend. Author Biography Samuel Weber is Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities at Northwestern University and director of its Paris Program in Critical Theory. He is the author of twelve books, including, most recently, Singularity. He is a founding editor of the Electronic Mediations series at the University of Minnesota Press. Review "[A] densely but engagingly argued overview of the different ways society has told the tale of plague and pandemic."---Terry Potter, Letterpress Project Long Description A stunning philosophical and literary account of canonical plague tales Many are the losses suffered and lives lost during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2020, writers around the globe have penned essays and books that make sense of this medical and public health catastrophe. But few have addressed a pressing question that precedes and is the foundation of their writings: How does the very act of narrating the pandemic offer strategies to confront and contend with the pandemics present dangers? What narratives have been offered during past plague and pandemic times to ease suffering and loss and protect individuals and communities from a life lived under the most precarious of conditions? The philosopher and literary and cultural critic Samuel Weber returns to past narratives of plagues and pandemics to reproduce the myriad ways individual and collective, historical and actual, intentional and unintentional forces converge to reveal how cultures and societies deal with their vulnerability and mortality. The "preexisting conditions"--a phrase taken from the American healthcare industry--of these very cultures converge and collide with the urgent situations of individuals confronting the plague. Texts drawn from the Bible, Sophocles, Thucydides, Boccaccio, Luther, Defoe, Kleist, H Review Quote "[A] densely but engagingly argued overview of the different ways society has told the tale of plague and pandemic." ---Terry Potter, Letterpress Project Details ISBN1942130767 Author Samuel Weber Short Title Preexisting Conditions Publisher Zone Books Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1942130767 ISBN-13 9781942130765 Format Hardcover Subtitle Recounting the Plague Pages 224 Imprint Zone Books Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2022-09-27 US Release Date 2022-09-27 UK Release Date 2022-09-27 Publication Date 2022-09-27 DEWEY 614.49 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2023-01-02 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137382349;
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