VOICES OF PHILOSOPHY IN FRONT OF THE PRESENT EXCEPTIONAL TIMES
VOICES OF PHILOSOPHY IN FRONT OF THE PRESENT EXCEPTIONAL TIMES

Summary/Abstract: The paper shows some philosophical interpretations developed in the last months about the significances of the pandemic. It starts by trying to understand if the year of the pandemic was, and how, exceptional, and deploys the philosophical treatment of some states (quarantine, state of exception, poverty, loneliness, enclave society) and concepts (within the system and beyond the system, use-value and exchange-value, the human individual and the human species, order and human rights).The logic of the paper emphasises its aim: to show the attitude of philosophers towards the social contradictions, and towards the contradictions of their analysis, as well as the possibility to develop their conclusions toward alternative theories and practical paths. This possibility was suggested by sending to empirical correspondence with facts. What is interesting in the survey of the philosophical pages analysed here is their capacity to transcend the paradigm of philosophical theory construction within the system, and at the same time the inertia of this paradigm. At any rate, the snatch from the grip of this paradigm is one of the main philosophical achievements of the pandemic. But it is a process, not a fact. The inevitably rapid remarks about some philosophical attitudes towards the pandemic are, nevertheless, dedicated to Jean Luc Nancy and Giorgio Agamben.

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