What World is This? [Judith Butler What World is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology, Columbia University Press, 2022, pp. 144] Cover Image

CO TO ZA ŚWIAT? [Judith Butler What World is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology, Columbia University Press, 2022, 144 str.]
What World is This? [Judith Butler What World is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology, Columbia University Press, 2022, pp. 144]

Author(s): Marta Brewer
Subject(s): Philosophy, Book-Review, Phenomenology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Judith Butler; phenomenology; pandemic

Summary/Abstract: The article looks at Judith Butler’s 2022 book titled What World is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology: an attempt to analyse the pandemic using the phenomenology of Max Scheler, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, as well as feminist phenomenology. The author of the book considers what the pandemic reveals about our being-in-the-world and what interdependencies it brings to light. She points out the political and ethical implications of thinking based on a common immune problem and the need for change through striving for radical equality.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 60
  • Page Range: 139-144
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Polish