An All-Too-Human Virus

by Jean-Luc Nancy

Book Overview

In the past, pandemics were considered divine punishment, but we now understand the biological characteristics of viruses and we know they are spread by social interaction and the movement of people. What used to be divine has become human - all too human, as Nietzsche would say.

But while the virus dispels the divine, we are discovering that living beings are much more complex and harder to define than we had previously thought, and also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509550224
• ISBN13: 9781509550227
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.8" x 7.4"