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LITERARY MEDITATIONS FOR PANDEMIC TIMES REFLECT...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic  many new techniques for remaining healthy have been
introduced  but there has been little to no public discussion about how to live well. Social
distancing is good medicine for the body  but the health of the spirit depends on wisdom. When
we find ourselves in new and dangerous conditions  we can only look to the past for counsel. In
this book  originally published as Plague Literature and now in its second edition  the
philosopher Dustin Peone offers reflections on ten literary classics set during plague times.
From each work  he draws one central insight that is applicable to our situation today and all
future pandemics. These insights are lessons in prudence  taught by the sages of the past. This
is a book about how to pursue the good life during a pandemic and what it means to flourish in
dark times  not just to survive.This is a unique and timely work  offering the reader a
systematic and historical perspective on the difficult and dangerous conditions of the present
time. -Donald Phillip Verene  Professor Emeritus of Philosophy  Emory UniversityAn invaluable
book  beautifully written in a classical style characterized by clarity and wit.-Brian P.
Quaranta  Trent Center for Bioethics  Humanities  and History of Medicine  Duke
UniversityPeone's book offers penetrating and essential insight about what is necessary for
human flourishing in pandemic conditions. This should be read by anyone wishing to understand
not only how to survive  but how to live well in dark and unsettling times.-Rebecca U. Thorpe 
Associate Professor of Political Science  University of Washington

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