Book Review: Moser, K. (2022). Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-COVID-19 Era. Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract

In the global Covid-19 pandemic aftermath comes Keith Moser’s transdisciplinary project in which the author calls for a reassessment of humanity’s relationship with itself and the surrounding world by resorting to a careful analysis of bioethics. Organized in seven chapters, including an introduction and a conclusion, and using a plethora of fact-based references, the book provides a valuable lesson in the obvious public health crisis that might help us in understanding what science and philosophy could teach us about our place in the biosphere. To do so, the author of Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-Covid-19 Era draws on ecological theories developed in conjunction with biosemiotics principles purported by the French philosophers Michel Serres, Edgar Morin, Jacques Derrida, Dominic Lestel, and Michel Onfray. The obvious purpose of the book, based on the human understanding of the communication (i.e., semiosis) throughout the universe, is to make us aware of the possible future pandemics and, at the same time, provide a unique biosemiotic perspective of the world.