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The Virus in the Age of Madness (Paperback or Softback)
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- 9780300257373
- ISBN
- 0300257376
- Binding
- TP
- Book Title
- Virus in the Age of Madness
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.3 in
- Genre
- History, Social Science, Philosophy
- Topic
- Modern / 21st Century, General, Disease & Health Issues, Essays
- Item Width
- 5 in
- Item Weight
- 5.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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A trenchant look at how the coronavirus reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society As seen on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS: "A stirring alarm addressed to an unsettled world." (Kirkus Reviews ) Forget the world that came before. The author of American Vertigo serves up an incisive look at how COVID-19 reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society. With medical mysteries, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe, the coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably altered societies around the world. In this sharp essay, world-renowned philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy interrogates the many meanings and metaphors we have assigned to the pandemic--and what they tell us about ourselves. Drawing on the philosophical tradition from Plato and Aristotle to Lacan and Foucault, Lévy asks uncomfortable questions about reality and mythology: he rejects the idea that the virus is a warning from nature, the inevitable result of global capitalism; he questions the heroic status of doctors, asking us to think critically about the loci of authority and power; he challenges the panicked polarization that dominates online discourse. Lucid, incisive, and always original, Lévy takes a bird's-eye view of the most consequential historical event of our time and proposes a way to defend human society from threats to our collective future. A portion of the author's proceeds will be donated to Binc (The Book Industry Charitable Foundation).
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Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300257376
ISBN-13
9780300257373
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7050033061
Product Key Features
Book Title
Virus in the Age of Madness
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Modern / 21st Century, General, Disease & Health Issues, Essays
Publication Year
2020
Genre
History, Social Science, Philosophy
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8 in
Item Height
0.3 in
Item Width
5 in
Item Weight
5.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
B2430.L533c4213 2020
Reviews
"A stirring alarm addressed to an unsettled world."-- Kirkus Reviews "The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted every facet of ordinary life, from work to school to how people interact socially. Philosopher/activist Bernard-Henri Levy contends that the pandemic has produced new social mythologies. . . . In The Virus in the Age of Madness , Lévy analyzes the politics and power relations operative in all these mythologies, and also what the mythologies tells us about ourselves. Throughout he argues that these mythologies, however ubiquitous, are neither insightful nor helpful. Rather they serve as a distraction from addressing the complex array of challenges at hand. They are a fantasy--a bad-faith detour into madness--that stems from the population's collective inability to confront the world."-- Choice Praise for the Author "Bernard-Henri Lévy does nothing that goes unnoticed. He is an intellectual adventurer who brings publicity to unfashionable political causes."-- New York Times "Only France could produce a phenomenon like Bernard-Henri Lévy, . . . As celebrated as any rock star, he speaks uncomfortable truths."-- Vanity Fair "We need Mr. Lévy's voice--clear, unconstructed, unconstrained, real--to help us."-- Wall Street Journal "A writer of enormous power and vitality."-- San Francisco Chronicle "Bernard-Henri Lévy, perhaps the most prominent intellectual in France today, [speaks] truth to power."-- Boston Globe, "A stirring alarm addressed to an unsettled world."-- Kirkus Reviews Praise for the Author "Bernard-Henri Lévy does nothing that goes unnoticed. He is an intellectual adventurer who brings publicity to unfashionable political causes."-- New York Times "Only France could produce a phenomenon like Bernard-Henri Lévy, . . . As celebrated as any rock star, he speaks uncomfortable truths."-- Vanity Fair "We need Mr. Lévy's voice--clear, unconstructed, unconstrained, real--to help us."-- Wall Street Journal "A writer of enormous power and vitality."-- San Francisco Chronicle "Bernard-Henri Lévy, perhaps the most prominent intellectual in France today, [speaks] truth to power."-- Boston Globe
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2020-939617
Dewey Decimal
194
Dewey Edition
23
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