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Title: The Legitimization of Violence

The Legitimization of Violence

Individual, Crowd, and Authority during the Covid-19 Pandemic

by Maia Kiladze (Author) Vladimer Luarsabishvili (Author)
©2024 Prompt XII, 70 Pages
History & Political Science

Summary

This book examines the Covid-19 pandemic from a social, cultural and philosophical perspective. In a unique and innovative approach, it addresses its subject by recounting the authors’ thoughts during the two long years of the pandemic, from 2020 to 2022. A pandemic reveals numerous tensions in society: forces that remain hidden during prosperous times, such as fear, violence, or the devaluation of human rights, emerge as significant factors during a social crisis. A pandemic is, therefore, useful as a phenomenon for studying human weaknesses and for evaluating the development of humanitarian crises when few people care about appearances, and there is little to hide because life itself is in the balance. This book will be of interest to students, researchers, and scholars of biomedical and social sciences, as well as those working in the fields of public health and political philosophy.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the author
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • FM Epigraph
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Modern Life, Technological Advances, and Medicine. Ethical Norms, How They Change, and the Pursuit of Survival. The Individual and the Crowd
  • Chapter 2 The Pandemic-Type of Society: The Individual, the Crowd, and the Authorities
  • Chapter 3 The Post-Pandemic-Type of Society: The Individual, the Crowd, and the Authorities
  • Chapter 4 Conclusions
  • Postscript
  • Index

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ISBN 9781636675633 (hardback)
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DOI 10.3726/b21049

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About the author

Maia Kiladze is an Associate Professor in the School of Science and Technology at the University of Georgia. She earned a Ph.D. in Life Sciences from Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia) and has worked at the Department of Experimental Neurophysiology at the University Clinic of Bonn (Germany).

Vladimer Luarsabishvili is a Professor of School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Caucasus University, Tbilisi, Georgia, and a visiting professor at the University of the Frontier, Temuco, Chile. He received a Ph.D. in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from Madrid Autonomous University, Spain, and went onto postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His recent publications include Ideas and Methodologies in Historical Research (2022), Rethinking Mamardashvili: Philosophical Perspectives, Analytical Insights (2022), Teoría de la interideidad. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer y Miguel de Unamuno (2022), and Retórica Cultural: Metáfora, Contexto, Traducción. Las Voces de Rubén Darío, Miguel de Unamuno, Gabriel Aresti, Kirmen Uribe y Harkaitz Cano (2024).

About the book

This book examines the Covid-19 pandemic from a social, cultural and philosophical perspective. In a unique and innovative approach, it addresses its subject by recounting the authors’ thoughts during the two long years of the pandemic, from 2020 to 2022. A pandemic reveals numerous tensions in society: forces that remain hidden during prosperous times, such as fear, violence, or the devaluation of human rights, emerge as significant factors during a social crisis. A pandemic is, therefore, useful as a phenomenon for studying human weaknesses and for evaluating the development of humanitarian crises when few people care about appearances, and there is little to hide because life itself is in the balance.

This book will be of interest to students, researchers, and scholars of biomedical and social sciences, as well as those working in the fields of public health and political philosophy.

Details

Pages
XII, 70
Year
2024
ISBN (PDF)
9781636675640
ISBN (ePUB)
9781636675657
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781636675633
DOI
10.3726/b21049
Language
English
Publication date
2024 (February)
Keywords
Crowd panic authority pandemic Covid-19 Covid-19 pandemic
Published
New York, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, Oxford, 2024. XII, 70 pp.

Biographical notes

Maia Kiladze (Author) Vladimer Luarsabishvili (Author)

Maia Kiladze is an Associate Professor in the School of Science and Technology at the University of Georgia. She earned a Ph.D. in Life Sciences from Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia) and has worked at the Department of Experimental Neurophysiology at the University Clinic of Bonn (Germany). Vladimer Luarsabishvili is a Professor of School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Caucasus University, Tbilisi, Georgia, and a visiting professor at the University of the Frontier, Temuco, Chile. He received a Ph.D. in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from Madrid Autonomous University, Spain, and went onto postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His recent publications include Ideas and Methodologies in Historical Research (2022), Rethinking Mamardashvili: Philosophical Perspectives, Analytical Insights (2022), Teoría de la interideidad. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer y Miguel de Unamuno (2022), and Retórica Cultural: Metáfora, Contexto, Traducción. Las Voces de Rubén Darío, Miguel de Unamuno, Gabriel Aresti, Kirmen Uribe y Harkaitz Cano (2024).

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