The danger of paradigms
A reflection on Giorgio Agamben's interpretation of COVID-19 health crisis
Abstract
On February 26, 2020, Giorgio Agamben published an article entitled “The invention of an epidemic” on Quodlibet.it, where he maintains that the epidemic is an excuse for governments to declare a state of emergency that grants them extraordinary powers. Agamben carries out this reading of the sanitary crisis, applying his work on states of exception and concentration camps as a theoretical framework. The “Agamben case” poses the following questions: how does philosophy deal with and work with empirical facts? What is the link between paradigms and facts? The health crisis produced by COVID-19 and, in particular, many philosophers’ role in it, has resulted in the manifestation of other symptoms, i.e. the crisis of what we will call, in line with Quentin Meillassoux (2019), post-Kantian philosophy.
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