LEADER 02425cam a22003375i 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20200902142606.0 007 ta 008 200529s2020 ctu 000 0 eng 010 2020939617 020 9780300257373 |q(paperback) 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dhubpceuo 042 pcc 082 194 100 1 Lévy, Bernard-Henri, |d1948- |eauthor 245 14 The virus in the age of madness / |cBernard-Henri Lévy. [English translation by Stephen B. Kennedy]. 260 New Haven, CT : |bYale University Press, |c2020. 300 106 p. ; |c20 cm. 337 unmediated 500 Originally published in French as "Ce virus qui rend fou", Paris, 2020. 520 "With medical developments, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe to billions, the dissemination of information during the coronavirus pandemic has radically altered social and political landscapes around the world. In this clear-eyed essay, renowned French public intellectual Bernard Henri-Lévy examines the various meanings we have assigned to the coronavirus pandemic, interrogating what these "messages" tell us about ourselves. Drawing on the philosophical tradition from Plato and Aristotle to Lacan and Foucault, Lévy asks uncomfortable questions about the realities and mythologies that have emerged during the pandemic. He rejects liberal ideas that the virus is a warning from nature, the inevitable result of global capitalism; he troubles the heroic status of physicians and researchers, asking us to think critically about the loci of authority and power; he questions the panicked polarization that dominates online discourse. With signature incisive analysis, Lévy takes a bird's-eye view of the most consequential historical event of our time, proposing a way to defend human society from contemporary threats to our social and economic future"-- 650 Philosophy, French |y21st century. 650 Epidemics. 650 Mass media |xSocial aspects. 700 1 Kennedy, Stephen B., |etranslator. 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6194_000000000000000_LEV |70 |8REF |9129672OSA |bOSA |d2020-09-02 |eOSA |l0 |o194 LEV |r2020-09-02 |w2020-09-02 |yBK |cReference 920 01 0Yq6Mzed 992 01 194_000000000000000_LEV |bYQV_ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_EL4 966 |cIn the Research Room