What We Are Reading Today: Preexisting Conditions: Recounting the Plague

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Updated 24 September 2022
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What We Are Reading Today: Preexisting Conditions: Recounting the Plague

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Author: Samuel Weber

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.

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.