On chimeras and fantastic monsters: Montaigne’s lessons on epidemic, isolation and infection
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Subjectivity, Essays, Epidemic, Isolation, InfectionAbstract
This article intends to, following Michel de Montaigne's philosophy, demonstrate which lessons we can learn about the epidemic context we are living in. Therefore, one can formulate this text's fundamental question as follows: what could we possibly learn from a 16th-century French philosopher about such a devastating moment we are living in? Montaigne clearly will tell us nothing about the nature of the virus, nor our immune system, let alone the methodologies of scientific inquiry regarding the search for medicaments to the treatment of this disease. What Montaigne can teach us lies beyond; it is not biological, but subjective. It is a (new) disposition of our spirit that we can learn to develop with the philosopher.Downloads
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