PANDEMICS AND APOCALYPSE IN WORLD LITERATURE : THE HOPE FOR PLANETARY SALVATION, FRANKE, WILLIAM, ISBN: 9781032895857

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FRANKE, WILLIAM

PANDEMICS AND APOCALYPSE IN WORLD LITERATURE : THE HOPE FOR PLANETARY SALVATION

978-1-032-89585-7 / 9781032895857

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Autor:
FRANKE, WILLIAM
Editorial:
ROUTLEDGE
Año:
2025
Colección:
< Genérica >
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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 Groundphysical and metaphysicalthat 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.