Pandemics and Apocalypse rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Roman (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), through the Middle Ages (Dante, Boccaccio) and Modernity (Defoe, Manzoni, Artaud, Camus) as a basis for contemplating the significance of the recent Covid-19 pandemic. It concerns how we are to confront future pandemics and other inextricably related crises, notably those of an ecological nature. Responses to Covid-19 typically set everything on defeating this "enemy," but actually we cannot eliminate viruses without eliminating ourselves. We need to see the pandemic as revealing us to ourselves in our inherently vulnerable condition as a first step to admitting the infinite openness to one another and to our Ground-physical and metaphysical-that alone can save our world by engendering a different attitude, open and engaged, to one another and to the Earth as sources of our collective life.
| ISBN: | 9781032895857 |
| Publication date: | 17th February 2025 |
| Author: | William Franke |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 136 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Focus on Literature |
| Genres: |
Comparative literature Theology Environmental policy and protocols |
Pandemics and Apocalypse rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Roman (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), through the Middle Ages (Dante, Boccaccio) and Modernity (Defoe, Manzoni, Artaud, Camus) as a basis for contemplating the significance of the recent Covid-19 pandemic. It concerns how we are to confront future pandemics and other inextricably related crises, notably those of an ecological nature. Responses to Covid-19 typically set everything on defeating this "enemy," but actually we cannot eliminate viruses without eliminating ourselves. We need to see the pandemic as revealing us to ourselves in our inherently vulnerable condition as a first step to admitting the infinite openness to one another and to our Ground-physical and metaphysical-that alone can save our world by engendering a different attitude, open and engaged, to one another and to the Earth as sources of our collective life.
Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature features in the following genres: Personal and public health / health education, Literary studies: general
Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature is available in Hardback
Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature was written by William Franke and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature has 136 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Focus on Literature series
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