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Corona Phenomenon: Philosophical and Political Questions /

Corona Phenomenon: Philosophical and Political Questions / edited by Pegah Mossleh. - 1 online resource. - Value Inquiry Book Series ; 376 . - Value Inquiry Book Series ; 376. .

In the face of the corona phenomenon, this volume includes the reflections of scholars on 60 important philosophical and political questions, together and interconnected.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction Questioning within the Roaring Waves of the Phenomenon / part 1 -- Reflections on Living in the Pandemic Situation -- 1 Lessons We Have Learned / 2 Historical Continuities and Historical Ruptures The Quest for “Lessons Learned” / 3 How a Limit Situation Made Us All More Philosophical / part 2 -- Corona Phenomenon and Philosophical Questions -- 4 Corona-Pandemic from the Philosophical Perspective / 5 What Can the Corona Phenomenon Teach Us About Our Conceptions of Subject and Nature? / 6 With the Emergence of the “Corona Phenomenon”, What Aspects of the Idea of Modern Subject Have Become More Visibly Problematic? / 7 covid-19: Scientific and Ethical Ambiguity / 8 On What the Real Moral Conflict in the covid-19 Pandemic Is – and What It Is Not / 9 Lockdowns and Living Well Life-Value Ethics in the Age of covid -19 / 10 Spirituality and the Role of Religion in the Contemporary Pandemic / 11 The Consequences of the Pandemic for Our Lives and for Philosophical Anthropology / 12 Corona Phenomenon, The Gateway to the Era of Post-Reactionary-Criticism / part 3 -- Corona Phenomenon and Political Questions -- 13 In What Sense Is the “Corona Phenomenonˮ Political ? / 14 The Impact of covid-19 on Federal Countries / 15 Is a Virus a Dispositif ? Pandemics as Thanatopolitics / 16 Speaking Truth to Power Political Courage in the Age of covid -19 / 17 States of Crisis Pandemic, Policing—and Resistance / 18 Will covid-19 Health Emergency Be the Pretext to Further Transform the EU Legal Order? Importance and Present Relevance of Walter Benjamin’s State of Emergency Analysis / 19 sars-cov-2 What Role for Political Philosophy? / 20 Reflections from Perfidious Albion The Pandemic as Prism / 21 The Potential Subjective and Objective Consequences of covid-19 on the Process of Democratization in the Maghreb / part 4 -- Corona Phenomenon and Interdisciplinary Questioning -- 22 The Plague, The Anthropocene, and covid-19 / 23 covid-19 and Identity / 24 Three Questions of Distributive Justice / 25 covid-19, Poverty, and Imperialism Epidemics and Syndemics in Historical Perspective / 26 Information and Human Behavior in Times of covid-19 / Index. Pegah Mossleh -- Charles Taylor -- Jacalyn Duffin -- Jean Grondin -- Michael Quante -- Anton Friedrich Koch -- Frank Chouraqui -- Richard Bradley -- Sabine Döring -- Jeffrey Noonan -- Neal DeRoo -- David Weberman -- Pegah Mossleh -- Paul Patton -- David Cameron -- Eduardo Mendieta -- Martin Breaugh -- Jeff Shantz -- Vicente Ordóñez Roig -- Beatrice Magni -- Huw L. Williams -- Ewa Szczepankiewicz-Rudzka -- Marcel Wissenburg -- Georgia Warnke -- Christopher Lowry -- Spyros Marchetos -- Marcel Becker --

This book is the outcome of one of the most extensive international academic projects on the COVID-19 pandemic in the field of humanities and social sciences. It includes the reflections of scholars from 25 universities, in Europe, Asia, Canada, Australia, the US, and the UK, on 60 important philosophical and political questions. This paradigmatic volume is unique in the history of the humanities and social sciences in dealing with pandemics and should be considered as a starting point for more coherent and synergistic academic cooperation in preparation for similar future phenomena.

9789004512924 9789004512917

10.1163/9789004512924 DOI

2022016833


COVID-19 (Disease)
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020---Social aspects.
Epidemics--Social aspects.

RA644.C67

616.2414