Rethinking Life

Acknowledgments

Epidemics, Precariousness, and Vulnerability: Introductory Remarks toward a Rethinking of Life
Silvia Benso

Part I: Confronting Disaster

1. Cassandra's Details: Coronavirus and the Course of Globalization
Luisa Bonesio

2. Improvising Self-Expression in the Time of a Contingency that Has Eliminated Contingency
Alessandro Bertinetto

3. Out of the Choir: Bodies Inclined on the Playboy
Lorenzo Bernini

4. Metaphor as Illness? Life, War, and a Linguistic Pharmakon
Alberto Martinengo

Part II: Vulnerability, Care, and Responsibility

5. "The Lungs that We All Are": Rethinking Life in the Times of a Pandemic
Olivia Guaraldo

6. Necropolitics, Care, and the Common
Elia Zaru

7. Lacking Beings
Luca Illetterati

8. Vulnerable Existences
Caterina Resta

9. Life and Useless Suffering: Responsibility for Others and the Impossible Theodicy
Rita Fulco

Part III: Rethinking Life

10. Greek Zèn: Living Starting from the Origin
Alessandra Cislaghi

11. Life and the "Black Swan"
Enrica Lisciani-Petrini

12. What Finitude Does Not Say: Rethinking Life beyond Nihilism
Roberto Mancini

13. Writing Life: Biography, Autobiography, and the Remainder
Claudia Baracchi

14. With the Finitude of Life beyond the Phenomenon: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and a Metaphysics of the Finite
Ugo Perone

Contributors
Index