What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology Butler Judith
What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology Butler Judith The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally…
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What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology Butler Judith
The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air, share the surfaces of the earth, and exist in proximity to other porous creatures in order to live in a social world. How do we think from, and about, this common bind?Judith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequences-political, social, ecological, economic-have challenged us to reconsider the sense of the world that such disasters bring about. What we require to live can also imperil our lives.
What World Is This? Drawing on the work of Max Scheler, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and critical feminist phenomenology, Butler illuminates the conditions in which we seek to make sense of our disorientation, precarity, and social bonds. offers a new account of interdependency in which