Preexisting Conditions – Recounting the Plague

Samuel Weber

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Zone Books
03 January 2023

Literary theory

A stunning philosophical and literary account of canonical plague tales

Many are the losses suffered and lives lost during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2020, writers around the globe have penned essays and books that make sense of this medical and public health catastrophe. But few have addressed a pressing question that precedes and is the foundation of their writings: How does the very act of narrating the pandemic offer strategies to confront and contend with the pandemic's present dangers? What narratives have been offered during past plague and pandemic times to ease suffering and loss and protect individuals and communities from a life lived under the most precarious of conditions? The philosopher and literary and cultural critic Samuel Weber returns to past narratives of plagues and pandemics to reproduce the myriad ways individual and collective, historical and actual, intentional and unintentional forces converge to reveal how cultures and societies deal with their vulnerability and mortality. The ""preexisting conditions""-a phrase taken from the American healthcare industry-of these very cultures converge and collide with the urgent situations of individuals confronting the plague. Texts drawn from the Bible, Sophocles, Thucydides, Boccaccio, Luther, Defoe, Kleist, Hlderlin, Artaud, and Camus demonstrate how in the process of narration individuals come to reconsider their relationship to others, to themselves, and to the collectives to which they belong and on which they depend.

By: Samuel Weber
Imprint: Zone Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 161mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 490g
ISBN: 9781942130765
ISBN 10: 1942130767
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 03 January 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Samuel Weber is Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities at Northwestern University and director of its Paris Program in Critical Theory. He is the author of twelve books, including, most recently, Singularity. He is a founding editor of the Electronic Mediations series at the University of Minnesota Press.

Reviews for Preexisting Conditions – Recounting the Plague

"""[A] densely but engagingly argued overview of the different ways society has told the tale of plague and pandemic.""---Terry Potter, Letterpress Project"

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Preexisting Conditions – Recounting the Plague

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