Modernity and the Pandemic

ISBN-13: 9781032567969 / Twarda / 2023 / 400 str.

UK) Creaven Sean (University of the West of England

Opis

Modernity and the Pandemic: Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19 applies the tools of critical social theory to make sense of the COVID-19 crisis and presents a critical sociological analysis of aspects of the political and community response to the pandemic.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Neoliberalism, capitalism, and imperialism  2. The pandemic in international relations  3. Modernity and decivilization  4. Decivilization and the pandemic  Conclusion

O autorze

Sean Creaven is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at the University of the West of England, UK. His research interests include the sociology of modernity and postmodernity, sociological theory, critical theory, Marxism and Post-Marxism, critical realism, and criminological theory. He is the author of The Pandemic in Britain: COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism (Routledge, 2023), Against the Spiritual Turn: Marxism, Realism, and Critical Theory (Routledge, 2010), Emergentist Marxism: Dialectical Philosophy and Social Theory (Routledge, 2007), and Marxism and Realism: A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences (Routledge, 2000).