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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.

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Author:   Pegah Mossleh
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   376
Weight:   0.646kg
ISBN:  

9789004512917

ISBN 10:   9004512918
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   30 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface 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 Index

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Pegah 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.

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