Where Are We Now?

Where Are We Now?
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In this volume, the renowned Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has collected all of his fierce, passionate, and deeeply personal interventions regarding the current health emergency. Alongside and beyond accusations and exact descriptions, these texts variously reflect upon the great transformation affecting Western democracies. In the name of biosecurity and health, the model of bourgeois democracy together with its rights, parliaments, and constitutions is everywhere surrendering to a new despotism where citizens seem to accept unprecedented limitations to their freedoms. This 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 is impossible to see?


Giorgio Agamben is a philosopher and political theorist who has been described as “one of the most vital and most discussed figures in academia”. Renowned for his insights into the history and contemporary crises of Western thought, his many works include The End of the Poem (Stanford University Press), Infancy and History (Verso Books), State of Exception (The University of Ch...

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  • 盗火者Howell
    06-11
    这本感觉有失水准。不是说不同意他说的,主要感觉是他愤怒的情绪大过于论证,可是处在pandemic我们又如何能做到不愤怒呢。
  • 年方十八发如雪
    04-17
    在上海大禁闭的这段时间,陆续阅读阿甘本在两年前写下的文章。或许置身于欧洲的他,对瘟疫的思考是非常悲观乃至有点偏激,但放在“为安全而安全”的东方国家语境中,几乎每个批判都击中要害。一种致力于保障赤裸生命的政治范式,已经侵入我们的生活。当然,这书注定也出不了简中版。
  • 煤炭师专学报
    04-20
    前两年我写过一篇关于阿甘本疫情期间发表文章的小论文 觉得自己没有想好就没有投稿 现在这个时间看过去 自己到底写了啥……
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