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,
Bartolome 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.
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