{"product_id":"the-plague","title":"The Plague","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Plague\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJacqueline Rose\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781250338334\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePicador Paper\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2024\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA slim, heart-wrenching, and rousing new book from the leading feminist writer Jacqueline Rose.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn early 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began to infiltrate public consciousness, sales of \u003ci\u003eThe Plague\u003c\/i\u003e, the classic novel by French philosopher Albert Camus, skyrocketed. At the same time, the virus's toll surged exponentially. 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. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJacqueline 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. Their politics and private griefs, the depth of their understanding, fling open a window into our present crises. 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Plague: Living Death in Our Times\u003c\/i\u003e enacts a psychic reckoning for our moment and for the future to be forged in its aftermath.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Picador Paper","offers":[{"title":"The Plague | Jacqueline Rose | Paperback | 9781250338334 | New | Essays 1669787","offer_id":50789379604738,"sku":"1669787","price":32.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81KLofdhbgL.jpg?v=1792303861","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/the-plague","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}