Resistere alla peste. Per una fenomenologia del coraggio come ‘passione politica
Journal title SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)
Author/s Samantha Novello
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/71 Language Italian
Pages 12 P. 89-100 File size 134 KB
DOI 10.3280/LAS2021-071006
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In recent philosophical-political analysis on the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic, the plague denotes the political paradigm of the «state of exception», in which fear combined with the nihilistic reduction of life to the sheer biological dimension neutralizes the capacity for rebellion against sovereign power. The essay takes into account Albert Camus’s writings and, in particular, the homonymous novel, The Plague, as providing a crucial source for exploring the human capacity for resistance through a phenomenological investigation into the various forms or ‘types’ of courage. Conceived with Arendt as a ‘political passion’, in Camus’s work courage denotes a rigorous exercise of ‘practical’ reason rooted in an attitude (‘feeling’) of openness-to-the-world (‘love’), that is capable of constituting spaces of public freedom beyond the contemporary immunopolitical paradigm built on the hobbesian imperative of conservatio vitae.
Keywords: Phenomenology, immunopolitics, fear, resistance, resonance, courage
Samantha Novello, Resistere alla peste. Per una fenomenologia del coraggio come ‘passione politica in "SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)" 71/2021, pp 89-100, DOI: 10.3280/LAS2021-071006