Pandemics as Matter of a System Crisis: Precarity of Society

ISBN-13: 9783658434496 / Angielski

Peter Herrmann

Spis treści

Preface by Mehmet Okyayuz,- Aversion to Affection.- Pandemics as Matter of a System Crisis – Precarity of Society.- Approaching an Understanding of Society: Property – Ownership.- The Pandemic – also a welcome distraction.- Limitations: decision making under the condition of uncertainty and with limited knowledge.- The Constitutional State without Constitution.- From ‘social contract’ to contract society.- Competition.- society – the state of law as state of the fittest.- Motherly encouragement: We can do it!.- The Corona State, defining itself.- Some economic questions.- economy – limits to the analysis.- A spiritual-economic turn?.- Excursus: The this tragedy of the media – their abuse as means of mediating sedation – the larger tragedy is the cal(a)m(ity) of communication.- Phasing – More Than a Chronology.- Initial phase.- Initial phase 2.-  Accommodation.- First relief.- Re-Accommodation.- Settlement in Uncertainty and Precarity.- Economics – not even changing the wineskins.- Lost lives – lost living?.- Economy and Society.- Finale.- The True Virus hiding behind Covid19.- Introduction.- My Life with the Corona Virus – The Early Days.- Visiting Europe again.- Oh folks, remain realist ….- Every Little Counts – The Common Good.- Freedom and the Control of the Individual that Lacks Insight into Necessities.- Grounding.

O autorze

Peter Herrmann, social philosopher, having worked globally in research and teaching positions in particular on social policy and economics, currently: Research Fellow, Human Rights Centre, Central South University Changsha, PRC.

Blurb

Pandemics — it seems that it had been the beginning of a new era, after a first shock wave a new normality commenced, trying to forget, but now living under a new Sword of Damocles. While origins and consequences had been frequently issued, little attention had been paid to structural problems of societies, making it difficult to cope with the exceptional situation. The present book, focusing on the Germany polity and its structural weakness, analysis the situation in a historical perspective. It is completed by an essayist globalist outlook on the pandemics.

The provocative thesis is that the precarity of society is itself a kind of virus, in many ways as dangerous as the Corona virus. The latter one showed the weak – and dangerous – points of the failure of the polity that need urgent and thorough political answers.

The Author

Peter Herrmann, social philosopher, having worked globally in research and teaching positions in particular on social policy and economics, currently: Research Fellow, Human Rights Centre, Central South University Changsha, PRC.