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- Democracy in Times of Pandemic
- Democracy in Times of Pandemic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: A New Beginning
- Part I Power
- Part II Knowledge
- Part III Citizens
- 10 COVID, Europe, and the Self-Asphyxiation of Democracy
- 11 Corona as Chance: Overcoming the Tyranny of Self-Interest
- 12 Reimagined Democracy in Times of Pandemic
- 13 Redefining Vulnerability and State–Society Relationships during the COVID-19 Crisis: The Politics of Social Welfare Funds in India and Italy
- 14 Democracy and the Obligations of Care: A Demos Worthy of Sacrifice
11 - Corona as Chance: Overcoming the Tyranny of Self-Interest
from Part III - Citizens
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 November 2020
- Democracy in Times of Pandemic
- Democracy in Times of Pandemic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: A New Beginning
- Part I Power
- Part II Knowledge
- Part III Citizens
- 10 COVID, Europe, and the Self-Asphyxiation of Democracy
- 11 Corona as Chance: Overcoming the Tyranny of Self-Interest
- 12 Reimagined Democracy in Times of Pandemic
- 13 Redefining Vulnerability and State–Society Relationships during the COVID-19 Crisis: The Politics of Social Welfare Funds in India and Italy
- 14 Democracy and the Obligations of Care: A Demos Worthy of Sacrifice
Summary
That isn’t a task for philosophers, though it’s not clear who could do a better job today. Bill Gates and others gave us some warning of the pandemic, but the world was caught unawares. The political thinker Ivan Krastev says we’re living with a radicalization of the imagination that embraces left and right. For years, climate change activists sought to curb air travel; what once seemed utopian happened overnight. Right-wing nationalists have long demanded closed borders; suddenly even the EU’s most visible achievement, open borders between Member States, was cast aside. What else can we begin to imagine? We know the economy is collapsing, but that determines nothing. In Germany, the Great Depression sealed the triumph of fascism. In the United States it spawned the closest thing to social democracy the country ever knew.
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- Democracy in Times of PandemicDifferent Futures Imagined, pp. 153 - 167Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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