Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters: Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID...

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Lee Trepanier (Samford University, USA)

Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters

Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID

Lee Trepanier (Samford University, USA)

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Routledge
27 May 2024

Illness & addiction: social aspects; Social theory; Political science & theory; Medical screening

Series: Contemporary Liminality

This book examines diseases and disasters from the perspective of social and political theory, exploring the ways in which political leaders, social activists, historians, philosophers, and writers have tried to make sense of the catastrophes that have plagued humankind from Thucydides to the present COVID pandemic. By adopting the perspective of political theory, it sheds light on what these individuals and events can teach us about politics, society, and human nature, as well as the insights and limitations of political theory. Including thinkers such as Thucydides, Sophocles, Augustine, Bacon, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Publius, Bartolomé de las Casas, Jane Addams, Camus, Saramago, Baudrillard, Weber, Schmitt, Voegelin and Agamben, it considers a diverse range of events including

the plagues of Byzantium and 14th century Europe, 9/11, the hurricanes of Fukushima, Boxing Day, and New Orleans, and the current COVID pandemic. An examination of past, present, and future diseases and disasters, and the ways in which individuals and societies react to them, this volume will appeal to scholars of politics, sociology, anthropology and philosophy with interests in disaster and the social body.

Edited by: Lee Trepanier (Samford University USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9781032053967
ISBN 10: 1032053968
Series: Contemporary Liminality
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lee Trepanier is Professor of Political Science at Samford University, USA. He is the author of Political Symbols in Russian History: Church, State, and the Quest for Order and Justice and Political Science: Concepts, Methods, and Topics, the editor of Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought, and the co-editor of Walk Away: When the Political Left Turns Right and Eric Voegelin Today: Voegelin’s Political Thought in the 21st Century.