1st Edition
Fear and the COVID-19 Pandemic A Liberticidal Virus
By Jean-François Caron
Copyright 2024
118 Pages
by
Routledge
118 Pages
by
Routledge
118 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the forms of fear that are becoming more visible in liberal democracies and how they now tend to condition our existences in a way that is detrimental to our personal freedom. The author explores how the conception of human existence that now dominates in liberal societies and that places the highest value on the preservation of life at all costs plays a significant role in... Read more
Introduction
1. Fear and the Meaning of Life
2. The Passage from a Lockean to a Hobbesian World
3. State of Emergency or a New Governance Paradigm
4. Recapturing Freedom
Biography
Jean- François Caron is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Nazarbayev University where he teaches Political Theory. He is also Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science and Administration at the University of Opole.
