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Title Corona phenomenon : philosophical and political questions / edited by Pegah Mossleh
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Value Inquiry Book Series ; volume 376
Social philosophy
Value inquiry book series ; v. 376.
Value inquiry book series. Social philosophy.
Value Inquiry Book Ser
Contents 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 Phenomenon" 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
Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Questioning within the Roaring Waves of the Phenomenon -- References -- Part 1 Reflections on Living in the Pandemic Situation -- Chapter 1 Lessons We Have Learned -- 1 What have we learned from the crisis of covid-19? What are the inadequacies in our Western democracies that it shows up? And what should be done about these? -- 2 One Extraordinarily Positive Message -- References
Chapter 2 Historical Continuities and Historical Ruptures: The Quest for "Lessons Learned" -- 1 Stages of a Pandemic -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 How a Limit Situation Made Us All More Philosophical -- References -- Part 2 Corona Phenomenon and Philosophical Questions -- Chapter 4 Corona Pandemic from the Philosophical Perspective -- Introduction -- 1 How Would the "Corona Phenomenon" Affect the Question of the Meaning of Life? -- 2 What Aspects of the Problematic Idea of Modern Subject Have Become More Apparent by the "Corona Phenomenon"?
3 What Would Be the Implications of Confronting the covid-19, Especially Implementing the Preventive Policies Such as Quarantine and Social Distancing and Isolation, for Contemplation about the Relation of Right and Good? -- 4 Which Major Problems of Moral Philosophy Have Become More Prominent in Confronting the covid-19? For Example, What Is the Response of Moral Philosophy to the [Inevitable?] Process of Inclusion and Exclusion- Preferring Some Patients to Continue Treatment?
5 With the Increasing Importance of the Natural Sciences, Especially Medical Science, in Confrontation with the covid-19, What Change May Occur in the Status of Philosophical Knowledge? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 What Can the Corona Phenomenon Teach Us about Our Conceptions of Subject and Nature? -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 With the Emergence of the "Corona Phenomenon", What Aspects of the Idea of Modern Subject Have Become More Visibly Problematic? -- 1 -- 2 -- References -- Chapter 7 covid-19: Scientific and Ethical Ambiguity -- 1 Ambiguity in the Value of a Life
2 Scientific Uncertainty -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 On What the Real Moral Conflict in the covid-19 Pandemic Is -- and What It Is Not -- 1 Freedom in the Time of the Pandemic -- 2 The Right, the Good, and the Rational Role of the Emotions -- References -- Chapter 9 Lockdowns and Living Well: Life-Value Ethics in the Age of covid-19 -- References -- Chapter 10 Spirituality and the Role of Religion in the Contemporary Pandemic -- 1 The "Secularˮ Benefits of Religion -- 2 Spirituality: On the Relation between Religion and the Divine -- 3 Responding to the Pandemic -- Bibliography
Summary 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
Notes Chapter 11 The Consequences of the Pandemic for Our Lives and for Philosophical Anthropology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 15, 2022)
Subject COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Social aspects
Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Mossleh, Pegah, editor.
LC no. 2022016833
ISBN 9004512926
9789004512924