On Violence and Vulnerability in a Pandemic

IF 0.3 4区哲学 0 LITERATURE

PHILOSOPHY AND RHETORIC Pub Date : 2020-07-14 DOI:10.5325/philrhet.53.3.0225

M. Bernard-Donals

引用次数: 1

Abstract

abstract:Pandemics and plagues function rhetorically, by doing violence to the structures of discourse, sociality, hospitality, and mutual engagement that characterize ethical human interaction. They infect us, as rhetorical subjects, and reorient our capacity for engagement. The coronavirus’s “novelty” renders it uncertain as to how long it will last or who will be infected next; the near-uniform response to it has been a forced distance of ourselves from others and a displacement from our itineraries and our locations. Through COVID-19 we are learning that pandemic does violence to our sense of place, to how we think of respite, and has highlighted our sense of vulnerability in the midst of others.

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关于大流行病中的暴力和脆弱性

流行病和瘟疫在修辞上发挥作用，通过对话语、社交、好客和相互参与的结构施加暴力，这些结构是人类道德互动的特征。作为修辞主题，它们感染了我们，并重新调整了我们参与的能力。冠状病毒的“新颖性”使人们不确定它会持续多久，也不确定下一个被感染的人是谁;对它的近乎一致的反应是我们被迫与他人保持距离，并从我们的行程和位置中流离失所。通过2019冠状病毒病，我们了解到，大流行对我们的地方感、对喘息的看法造成了暴力，并突显了我们在他人中间的脆弱感。

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PHILOSOPHY AND RHETORIC Multiple-

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0.70

自引率

25.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： Philosophy and Rhetoric is dedicated to publication of high-quality articles involving the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric. It has a longstanding commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship and welcomes all theoretical and methodological perspectives that advance the journal"s mission. Philosophy and Rhetoric invites articles on such topics as the relationship between logic and rhetoric, the philosophical aspects of argumentation, philosophical views on the nature of rhetoric held by historical figures and during historical periods, psychological and sociological studies of rhetoric with a strong philosophical emphasis, and philosophical analyses of the relationship to rhetoric of other areas of human culture and thought, political theory and law.