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Coronavirus ca metaforă filosofico-politică
Coronavirus as a Philosophical-Political Metaphor

Author(s): Viorella Manolache
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Rhetoric
Published by: EDITURA INSTITUTULUI DE ȘTIINȚE POLITICE ȘI RELAȚII INTERNAȚIONALE ”Ion I. C. Brătianu”
Keywords: illness as metaphor; Coronavirus; philosphical and political debates; viral state of exception; symbolic precipitate of the postmodern human condition; biopolitics;

Summary/Abstract: The present text is required to be read, as a reflection in/from the self-isolation, thus opening and implying some ideatic-relevant accents, necessary both for a philosophical and political evaluation of the illness (here, „evaluation” is a metaphorically term, part of the assertion delivered by Susan Sontag, for whom "some illnesses – regarding here and now, Coronavirus – seem more open for a philosophical-political meditation"), through a dedicated dossier (in European Journal of Psychoanalysis, February-March 2020, focused upon the relationship between Coronavirus and Philosophers), and through a virtual-dialogic with the Italian political philosopher Roberto Esposito. The dialogue is more necessary and actual, as it happens just when Romania announces the first case of Coronavirus death, and Italy continues to surpass – unfortunate and tragic – China, in the highest death ranking!

  • Issue Year: XVII/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 89-97
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Romany