Responses to a Pandemic: Philosophical and Political Reflections

by Anna Gotlib (Editor)

Overview

This book offers a unique collection of philosophers engaging in public philosophy, offering responses to, and reflections on, the moral, political, social, and medical dilemmas born of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538154045
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/08/2022
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Anna Gotlib is Associate Professorr of Philosophy at Brooklyn College CUNY.

Table of Contents

In Medias Res: Philosophers as Witnesses to Disaster, Anna Gotlib PART I: Pandemic Selves Chapter 1: The New Normals: Solidarity, Recognition, and Vulnerable Selves in the COVID-19 Pandemic, Vanessa Wills Chapter 2: COVID-19 and the Politics of Home, Corey McCall Chapter 3: Waiting to Say Goodbye, J. S. Biehl PART II: Pandemic, Illness, and Disability Chapter 4: Sometimes Life Gives You Way Too Many Lemons: An Observation in Nine Parts, Ruth Groenhout Chapter 5: The Nightmare of Triage and Discrimination: Whose Benefit Is to be Maximized?, Eva Feder Kittay Chapter 6: Disability and Disproportionate Disadvantage, Kevin Timpe PART III: Pandemic, Precariousness, and Social Justice Chapter 7: We Survived COVID-19! (Possibly), Jamie Lindemann Nelson Chapter 8: New Labors, New Burdens: Care Work Re-narrated, Jennifer Scuro Chapter 9: Boundaries of Democratic Life in a Time of Pandemic, Alexios Alexander PART IV: Pandemic, Philosophy, and Meaning Chapter 10: More than Mere Survival: Ethical Responsibility and the Intersubjectivity of the Humanities, Claire Katz Chapter 11: Who Will I Be after All This Is Over?, Barrett Emerick Chapter 12: The COVID-19 Guidebook for Living in an Alternate Universe, Eyja M. Brynjarsdóttir Chapter 13: Viral Hope: When Quarantine Comes Home, Daniel Conway

Editorial Reviews

This collection of essays written amid the coronavirus pandemic is a fine example of what public philosophy can be. Social presuppositions are excavated, conversations begun in classrooms extend beyond them, and the contributors’ varied personal experiences do not replace but inform the mournful, hopeful, and bracing philosophical and political reflections they offer us.

Ben Almassi

As philosophers interested in figuring out how philosophy can contribute to public debates and pressing social issues, we are thrilled to see this insightful and timely book. We highly recommend it to anyone who wants to better understand what we’ve been going through.

Ramona Ilea and Monica Greenwell Janzen