Care, Control and COVID-19 : : Health and Biopolitics in Philosophy and Literature /

Care, Control and COVID-19 : : Health and Biopolitics in Philosophy and Literature / / ed. by Raili Marling, Marko Pajević.

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 restriction...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Campbell, Timothy,
Crew, Thomas,
Eskin, Michael,
Friedenthal, Meelis,
Kraushaar, Frank,
Käsper, Marge,
Marling, Raili,
Monticelli, Daniele,
Pajević, Marko,
Vint, Sherryl,
Wasihun, Betiel,
HerausgeberIn:
Marling, Raili,
Pajević, Marko,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 278 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Health and Biopolitics in COVID-19 Times – What Constitutes a Healthy Society?
  • Preliminary Remarks for a Biopolitical History of Western Plague Narratives
  • How to Manage Plague and COVID-19: Parallels and Differences Between Today and Premodern and Early-Modern Medical Theories
  • “Civilization is Sterilization”: Utopia, Biopolitics and the Total Society in Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
  • COVID-19 as Event: Mythology and Ritual in Agamben’s Pandemic Dispatches
  • Biopolitics, Form-of-Life, A New Use of Bodies
  • The Relationality and Representability of Biopolitical Crises
  • State Control Versus Humanity: Biopolitics and Health in Juli Zeh’s The METHOD (Corpus Delicti, 2009)
  • The Quantified Self: Surveillance, Biopolitics and Literary Resistance
  • When “Total War” Joins “People’s War”: China’s Recent Surge of Biopolitics and Its Repercussions in Internet Poetry
  • Inside in Immunity, Outside in Community? Discussing Esposito and Framing Pandemic Polemics in France
  • Needful Facts, Big and Small: On Bodies, Equality, and Treatment
  • About the Authors
  • Index

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