“…To what extent and in what circumstances is it possible to challenge the basic concepts of such systems? Being, Humanity, and Understanding examines these questions cross-culturally and seeks to draw out the implications for the revisability of some of our habitual assumptions concerning such topics as ontology, morality, nature, relativism, incommensurability, the philosophy of language, and the pragmatics of communication…”

“…As the twindemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice tore through the United States, a contested presidential race unfolded, which one candidate described as "a battle for the soul of the nation." Being Human during COVID documents the first year of the pandemic in real time, bringing together humanities scholars from the University of Michigan to address what it feels like to be human during the COVID-19 crisis. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction Being Human, Being Migrant; 1 Fantasy, Subjectivity and Vulnerability through the Story of a Woman Asylum Seeker in Italy; 2 Negotiating the Past, Imagining a Future ; 3 Narrating Mobile Belonging; 4 Well-Being and the Implication of Embodied Memory; 5 Towards a 'Re-envisioning of the Everyday' in Refugee Studies; 6 Behind the Iron Fence; Epilogue A Migrant or Circuitous Sensibility; Notes on Contributors ; Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Being Human During Covid-19 -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on Contributors -- PART I Knowing Humans -- ONE Making Models into Public Objects -- What's missing from evidence-based policy? …”

“…Being human in a disembodied world…”