Making sense of diseases and disasters : reflections of political theory from antiquity to the age of COVID /: reflections of political theory from antiquity to the age of COVID. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lee Trepanier.
• Editors: Trepanier, Lee, 1972-
• Contents: Introduction Lee Trepanier Part 1: In the Time of COVID 1. The Permanentization of Emergencies: The Case of Epidemics Arpad Szakolczai 2. The COVID Apocalypse: Doing Your Job in World War IV Paul Corey 3. Situating Solidarity in the Time of COVID: Disaster, Dignity, and Difficult Decisions in Catholic Social Thought Jeremiah H. Russell and Michael E. Promisel 4. Hull House and Disease: Interconnectedness, Creativity, and Community Lorraine Krall McCrary 5. Factions and Not Facts: David Hume, James Madison, and America’s Response to COVID Jordon Barkalow Part 2: Modern Solutions and Problems 6. Locke, Plague, and the Two Treatises of Government Kevin Kearns 7. Natural Science, Disaster, and the Wise Management of Passions in Francis Bacon Evan Lowe 8. Perfectibility, Disease, and Morality: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s teaching on Modern Science Benjamin Isaak Gross 9. Acts of God and Acts of Men: Bartolomé de las Casas’s Interpretation of Sixteenth-Century Epidemics Brian Hamm 10. Plagues and Citizenship: How Disease Changed the Meaning of Political Membership in Ancient Athens, Byzantium, and 14th Century Europe Jason Wallace Part III: Love, God, and Plagues in Antiquity 11. St. Augustine and the Politics of Sovereign Charity: Caritas Contra Cupiditas in The City of God Paul Krause 12. On the Uses and Abuses of Flood for Life: St. Augustine’s Theo-politics of Disaster Alicia Rolsma Richard Avramenko 13. Sophocles’ Philoctetes : Disease and the Interconnected Needs Marlene K. Sokolon 14. The Plague in Thucydides’s Account of Civilization Khalil Habib 15. Athens and Oran: The Loves and Lessons of Two Plagues Thornton C. Lockwood Part 4: Past and Present Reflections 16. The Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster of 2011: An Analysis of Fukushima’s Dialogical Negotiation of Identity Matthew Nall 17. Redefining Trauma through ‘Going Ashore’ and The Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004 Aimee Pozorski 18. Hurricane Katrina: Finding Freedom in James Lee Burke’s Tin Roof Blowdown Catherine Craig 19. 9/11 and the Solitary Soul: The State of the Person in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man Michael Buhler 20. The Doctor’s Wife: The Limits of Compassionate Rule in the State of Nature in Saramago’s Blindness Erin Dolgoy and Kimberly Hurd Hale
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 362.1042; Human security -- History; Public health -- Political aspects; Disasters -- Political aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000637373; 9781000637335; 9781003197379
• Related ISBNs: 9781032053950
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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