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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Pegah MosslehPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 376 Weight: 0.646kg ISBN: 9789004512917ISBN 10: 9004512918 Pages: 290 Publication Date: 30 June 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors Introduction Questioning within the Roaring Waves of the Phenomenon Pegah Mossleh part 1 Reflections on Living in the Pandemic Situation 1 Lessons We Have Learned Charles Taylor 2 Historical Continuities and Historical Ruptures The Quest for “Lessons Learned” Jacalyn Duffin 3 How a Limit Situation Made Us All More Philosophical Jean Grondin part 2 Corona Phenomenon and Philosophical Questions 4 Corona-Pandemic from the Philosophical Perspective Michael Quante 5 What Can the Corona Phenomenon Teach Us About Our Conceptions of Subject and Nature? Anton Friedrich Koch 6 With the Emergence of the “Corona Phenomenon”, What Aspects of the Idea of Modern Subject Have Become More Visibly Problematic? Frank Chouraqui 7 covid-19: Scientific and Ethical Ambiguity Richard Bradley 8 On What the Real Moral Conflict in the covid-19 Pandemic Is – and What It Is Not Sabine Döring 9 Lockdowns and Living Well Life-Value Ethics in the Age of covid-19 Jeffrey Noonan 10 Spirituality and the Role of Religion in the Contemporary Pandemic Neal DeRoo 11 The Consequences of the Pandemic for Our Lives and for Philosophical Anthropology David Weberman 12 Corona Phenomenon, The Gateway to the Era of Post-Reactionary-Criticism Pegah Mossleh part 3 Corona Phenomenon and Political Questions 13 In What Sense Is the “Corona Phenomenonˮ Political? Paul Patton 14 The Impact of covid-19 on Federal Countries David Cameron 15 Is a Virus a Dispositif? Pandemics as Thanatopolitics Eduardo Mendieta 16 Speaking Truth to Power Political Courage in the Age of covid-19 Martin Breaugh 17 States of Crisis Pandemic, Policing—and Resistance Jeff Shantz 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 Vicente Ordóñez Roig 19 sars-cov-2 What Role for Political Philosophy? Beatrice Magni 20 Reflections from Perfidious Albion The Pandemic as Prism Huw L. Williams 21 The Potential Subjective and Objective Consequences of covid-19 on the Process of Democratization in the Maghreb Ewa Szczepankiewicz-Rudzka part 4 Corona Phenomenon and Interdisciplinary Questioning 22 The Plague, The Anthropocene, and covid-19 Marcel Wissenburg 23 covid-19 and Identity Georgia Warnke 24 Three Questions of Distributive Justice Christopher Lowry 25 covid-19, Poverty, and Imperialism Epidemics and Syndemics in Historical Perspective Spyros Marchetos 26 Information and Human Behavior in Times of covid-19 Marcel Becker IndexReviewsAuthor InformationPegah Mossleh is a physician, philosopher and political scientist and is currently a faculty member at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies (IHCS) in Tehran. He is the author of the book Principles of Political Theorizing (2019) and has translated the book Hegels Dialektik by Hans-Georg Gadamer from German to Persian in 2015. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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