Where Are We Now The Epidemic As Politics 1st Edition Giorgio Agamben by Giorgio Agamben 9781912475353, 1912475359 instant download after payment.

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?

Originally published in Italy in 2020 by Quodlibet as A che punto siamo? L'epidemia come politica.