1st Edition
Modernity and the Pandemic Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19
Introduction
1 Neoliberalism, capitalism, and imperialism
2 The pandemic in international relations
3 Decivilization and society
4 Decivilization and the pandemic
Conclusion
Biography
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).
