A slim, heart-wrenching, and rousing new book from the leading feminist writer Jacqueline Rose.
The Plague: Living Death In Our Times enacts a psychic reckoning for our moment and for the future to be forged in its aftermath..
Rose, one of the most insightful thinkers on politics and psychoanalysis alike, has written a story of unusual range, spanning World War II to Russia\'s invasion of Ukraine, surging domestic violence to emboldened anti-racist protest, the Spanish influenza to Omicron, Boris Johnson\'s deranged optimism to Vladimir Putin\'s megalomania.
Their politics and private griefs, the depth of their understanding, fling open a window into our present crises.
Jacqueline Rose\'s trenchant new book unravels recent history via the lives and works of three extraordinary thinkers--Albert Camus, Sigmund Freud, and Simone Weil, each one afflicted by catastrophe.
We have been through a time of \'Living death\' when, for millions across the globe, untold horror has seemed to infiltrate the very air we breathe.
Amid the harrowing loss, many sensed a glimmer of possibility--the potential for radical empathy wrought by shared experience--even as the death-dealing divisions of class, race, gender, and citizenship were underscored like never before.
At the same time, the virus\'s toll surged exponentially.
In early 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began to infiltrate public consciousness, sales of The Plague , the classic novel by French philosopher Albert Camus, skyrocketed.
A slim, heart-wrenching, and rousing new book from the leading feminist writer Jacqueline Rose
