Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters

Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters

Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID

Trepanier, Lee

Taylor & Francis Ltd

08/2022

238

Dura

Inglês

9781032053950

15 a 20 dias

616

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Introduction Part 1: In the Time of COVID 1. The Permanentization of Emergencies: The Case of Epidemics 2. The COVID Apocalypse: Doing Your Job in World War IV 3. Situating Solidarity in the Time of COVID: Disaster, Dignity, and Difficult Decisions in Catholic Social Thought 4. Hull House and Disease: Interconnectedness, Creativity, and Community 5. Factions and Not Facts: David Hume, James Madison, and America's Response to COVID Part 2: Modern Solutions and Problems 6. Locke, Plague, and the Two Treatises of Government 7. Natural Science, Disaster, and the Wise Management of Passions in Francis Bacon 8. Perfectibility, Disease, and Morality: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's teaching on Modern Science 9. Acts of God and Acts of Men: Bartolome de las Casas's Interpretation of Sixteenth-Century Epidemics 10. Plagues and Citizenship: How Disease Changed the Meaning of Political Membership in Ancient Athens, Byzantium, and 14th Century Europe Part III: Love, God, and Plagues in Antiquity 11. St. Augustine and the Politics of Sovereign Charity: Caritas Contra Cupiditas in The City of God 12. On the Uses and Abuses of Flood for Life: St. Augustine's Theo-politics of Disaster 13. Sophocles' Philoctetes: Disease and the Interconnected Needs 14. The Plague in Thucydides's Account of Civilization 15. Athens and Oran: The Loves and Lessons of Two Plagues Part 4: Past and Present Reflections 16. The Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster of 2011: An Analysis of Fukushima's Dialogical Negotiation of Identity 17. Redefining Trauma through 'Going Ashore' and The Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004 18. Hurricane Katrina: Finding Freedom in James Lee Burke's Tin Roof Blowdown 19. 9/11 and the Solitary Soul: The State of the Person in Don DeLillo's Falling Man 20. The Doctor's Wife: The Limits of Compassionate Rule in the State of Nature in Saramago's Blindness
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ancient world;society;reaction;individual;contemporary society;case studies;sociology;anthropology;social theory;political theory;tsunami;hurricane;philosophy;plague;catastrophe;disaster;disease;Young Man;pandemic;Water Falls;Vaccine Hesitancy;MERS;World War III;Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster;Late 4th Century BCE;Khao Lak;Temporis Partus Masculus;Public Engagements;Hume Associate;World War IV;Boxing Day Tsunami;Hull House;Liminal Events;Doctor's Wife;CDC Recommendation;Christian Nationalism;Amor Sui;Nineteenth Ward;Civitas Terrena;4th Century BCE