What does it mean to be in the middle of a pandemic—for us, for our country, or for the world? How do our current inequalities and injustices become amplified by the demands of the pandemic and what, if anything, can be done? Who is most impacted—and why does it seem that so many of the same people are, once again, deemed expendable and "less-than"? How do we explain COVID-19 and its attendant traumas to our children, and what do we teach them about hope, justice, grief, and the role of imagination in survival? And once the worst has passed, how do we start again, and what should we care about as we contemplate individual and collective repair?
In this collection of public and political philosophy, philosophers come together to address these and other questions born of a devastating pandemic to which they are neither objective spectators nor external observers insulated by the passage of time. The contributors to this volume are both grounded in, and immediately affected by, their own lived realities as source material for the questions that move and motivate them.
Contributors: Alexios Alexander, J. S. Biehl, Eyja M. Brynjarsdóttir, Daniel Conway, Barrett Emerick, Anna Gotlib, Ruth Groenhout, Claire Katz, Eva Feder Kittay, Corey McCall, Jamie Lindemann Nelson, Jennifer Scuro, Kevin Timpe, Vanessa Wills
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Political PhilosophyTable of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- In Medias Res: Philosophers as Witnesses to Disaster
- Pandemic Selves
- The New Normals: Solidarity, Recognition, and Vulnerable Selves in the COVID-19 Pande
- COVID-19 and the Politics of Home
- Waiting to Say Goodbye
- Pandemic, Illness, and Disability
- Sometimes Life Gives You Way Too Many Lemons: An Observation in Nine Parts
- The Nightmare of Triage and Discrimination: Whose Benefit Is to be Maximized?
- Disability and Disproportionate Disadvantage
- Pandemic, Precariousness, and Social Justice
- We Survived COVID-19! (Possibly)
- New Labors, New Burdens: Care Work Re-narrated
- Boundaries of Democratic Life in a Time of Pandemic
- Pandemic, Philosophy, and Meaning
- More than Mere Survival
- Who Will I Be after All This Is Over?
- The COVID-19 Guidebook for Living in an Alternate Universe
- Viral Hope: When Quarantine Comes Home
- Index
- About the Contributors
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