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The suspended present and the experience of the unprecedented event: regarding the COVID-19 pandemic

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No. 55 (2021): Diciembre

Abstract

This article tries to show how our pandemic´s experience qualified our present as a “present in-between”, a “suspended present”. Following Derrida and Simon, “unprecedented event” as a concept is analyzed. The objective is to show that pandemic´s experience made us to configure a “we as a species”. Chakrabarty considered impossible this last concept.

Keywords:

Unprecedented event, suspended present, species, historical temporality, epochal event, historical present

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María Inés Mudrovcic, Universidad Nacional del Comahue (UNCo)

Profesora Titular de Filosofía de la Historia en la Universidad Nacional del Comahue (UNCo), Investigadora Principal del CONICET e investigadora del IPEHCS. Doctora en Filosofía, Universidad de Buenos Aires. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4563-0108.
Correo electrónico: mmudrovcic@gmail.com

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Mudrovcic, M. I. (2021). The suspended present and the experience of the unprecedented event: regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. Cuadernos De Historia, (55), pp. 37–58. Retrieved from https://revistadesociologia.uchile.cl/index.php/CDH/article/view/65318
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