Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/303439 
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Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
LEQS Paper No. 156
Publisher: 
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), European Institute, London
Abstract: 
The Coronavirus (Covid-19) poses interesting questions for social and political thought. These include the nature and limits of the ethical responsibility of the state, personal liberty and collective interests, human dignity, and state surveillance. As many countries throughout the world declared states of emergency, some of the major questions in political philosophy become suddenly highly relevant. Foucault's writings on biopolitical securitization and Agamben's notion of the state of exception take on a new reality, as do the classical arguments of utilitarianism and libertarianism. In this paper, I discuss six main philosophical responses to the pandemic, including provocative interventions made by Agamben, Badieu, and Zizek, Latour on the governance of life and death as well as the Kantian perspective of Habermas on human dignity
Subjects: 
Agamben
Badieu
Utilitarianism
Habermas
libertarianism
Latour
nudge theory
Zizek
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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