Where Are We Now?: The Epidemic as Politics,Giorgio Agamben

-About this book

Renowned Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben presents his fierce, passionate, and deeply personal commentaries regarding the 2020 health emergency as it played out in Italy and across the world.

 Alongside and beyond accusations, these texts reflect upon the great transformation affecting Western democracies. In the name of biosecurity and health, the model of bourgeois democracy—together with its rights, institutions, and constitutions—is surrendering everywhere to a new despotism where citizens accept unprecedented limitations to their freedoms.
The push to accept this new normal leads to the urgency of the volume’s title: Where Are We Now? For how long will we accept living in a constantly extended state of exception, the end of which remains impossible to see?

-Contents

Foreword

1 The Invention of an Epidemic

2 Contagion

3 Clarifications

4 Where Are We Now?

5 Reflections on the Plague

6 The State of Exception Has Become the Rule

7 Social Distancing

8 A Question

9 Bare Life

10 New Reflections

11 On Truth and Falsity

12 Medicine as Religion

13 Biosecurity and Politics

14 Polemos Epidemios

15 Requiem for the Students

16 Two Notorious Terms

17 Law and Life

18 State of Emergency and State of Exception

19 The Face and the Mask

20 What Is Fear?

21 On the Time to Come

Notes