{"title":"Frédéric Keck","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrederic Keck explores the complex relationships between humans and other species with a thoughtful and interdisciplinary approach. His works often delve into themes of ecology, anthropology, and ethics, inviting readers to consider the interconnectedness of life from unexpected perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePrimarily situated within \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e, Keck’s books offer insightful analyses that challenge conventional boundaries between species, fostering a deeper understanding of solidarity and coexistence in the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"how-french-moderns-think-by-frederic-keck-9781914363023","title":"How French Moderns Think","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThis book traces the contributions of the Lévy-Bruhl family to social and political thought and expertise in 20th-century France, shaping the anticipation of economic and health crises.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow French Moderns Think\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the French sociological tradition through four generations of the Lévy-Bruhl family: Lucien, who founded the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Paris; his son Henri, who founded the Institute of Roman Law; his grandson Raymond, who took part in the creation of the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies; and his great-grandson Daniel, a vaccine specialist at the Institute of Public Health.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis family history casts a new light on the philosophical debates about “primitive mentality” and the “savage mind.” By drawing on the expert knowledge inherent in this family genealogy, the articulation between the logical and the “pre-logical” is not a cognitive question but rather a problem of anticipating unpredictable events.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy relating Lévy-Bruhl’s engagements from the Dreyfus Affair to the Minister of Armaments during the First World War, Keck narrates the confrontation of the socialist ideal of justice and truth with the French colonial experience and its transformations in global technologies preparing for pandemics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000638292204,"sku":"9781914363023","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/16298723482869.jpg?v=1763292256"},{"product_id":"solidarity-between-species-by-frederic-keck-9781509566884","title":"Solidarity Between Species","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book examines how the Covid-19 pandemic can be described as a biopolitical crisis, taking into account a fact often overlooked by commentators: Covid-19 is a zoonosis, a disease transmissible between animal species. The Sars-Cov2 virus causing this respiratory disease circulated in bats before passing to humans under as-yet mysterious conditions, and it was transmitted from humans to other species, notably mink and deer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding on Michel Foucault’s revival of the term \u003cem\u003ebiopolitics\u003c\/em\u003e and related notions (disciplinary power, pastoral power, cynegetic power), \u003cem\u003eSolidarity Between Species\u003c\/em\u003e traces a set of public health measures taken over the last two centuries to control epidemics. It underlines how the need to conserve virus strains in order to identify and anticipate their mutations has given rise to \u003cem\u003ecryopolitics\u003c\/em\u003e, a set of techniques aimed at suspending the living in order to defer death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book then questions the emancipatory scope of this cryopolitics by examining interspecies solidarity built by the warning signals sent by animals to humans about coming threats, be they pandemics, natural disasters, or climate change. By blurring the boundaries between the wild and the domestic resulting from the process of domestication, the politics of zoonoses relies on sentinels who preserve the memory of signs from the past to prepare living beings for future threats by involving them in a common ideal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428113662188,"sku":"9781509566884","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509566884.jpg?v=1774767235"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/frederic-keck.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}