Closure and Permeability from Pneumatic Experience to Extra-Cultural Insight in the Kairós
Closure and Permeability from Pneumatic Experience to Extra-Cultural Insight in the Kairós

Summary/Abstract: The outbreak of a new disease, designated as COVID-19, brought about not only the consolidation of scientific methods of addressing the global crisis, but also the renaissance of religious patterns of imagination, and more generally, of the cultural heritage accumulated during similar events, such as plagues that periodically inundated the mankind since the Antiquity. No wonder thus that humanities, as well as medical sciences, are expected to address the issue of the disease and its lasting consequences, providing a “fuller story” than just that of the medical intervention and the invention of the vaccine (cf. Smith 2021). The aim of the present essay is to revisit and re-examine those inherited ways of facing the catastrophic events such as the current pandemic, that date back to the Antiquity, and to contrast them with the contribution provided by the present-day post-humanist philosophy.

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