{"product_id":"an-all-too-human-virus-hardback-9781509550210","title":"An All-Too-Human Virus (Hardback) 9781509550210","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAn All-Too-Human Virus\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJean-Luc Nancy (Author), Cory Stockwell (Translated by), David Fernbach (Translated by), Sarah Clift (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509550210, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 November 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e100 pages\u003cbr\u003e19.3 x 13 x 1.5 cm, 0.227 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Into the craw of the pandemic, every tomorrow seems to have slid. Nancy here attempts to breathe out. In articulating the contradictions we confront and rendering the tentativeness of our situation palpable, he scans for an opening.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eProfessor Joan Copjec, Brown University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePublisher’s Note\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Prologue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I. An All-Too-Human Virus\u003cbr\u003e         \u003cbr\u003e II. “Communovirus” \u003cbr\u003e                          \u003cbr\u003e III. Let Us Be Infants\u003cbr\u003e                       \u003cbr\u003e IV. Evil and Power\u003cbr\u003e                            \u003cbr\u003e V. Freedom\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cbr\u003e VI. Neo-Viralism\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cbr\u003e VII. To Free Freedom\u003cbr\u003e                         \u003cbr\u003e VIII. The Useful and the Useless\u003cbr\u003e                   \u003cbr\u003e IX. Still All Too Human\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 1: Interview with Nicolas Dutent\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2: From the Future to the Time to Come: The Revolution of the Virus (with Jean-François Bouthors)\u003cbr\u003eSources of the Texts\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52509166403864,"sku":"9781509550210","price":29.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509550210.jpg?v=1786495385","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/an-all-too-human-virus-hardback-9781509550210","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}