Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters
Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID
Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters
Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID
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Description
This book examines diseases and disasters from the perspective of social and political theory, exploring the ways in which political leaders, social activists, historians, philosophers, and writers have tried to make sense of the catastrophes that have plagued humankind from Thucydides to the present COVID pandemic.
Lee Trepanier is Professor of Political Science at Samford University, USA. He is the author of Political Symbols in Russian History: Church, State, and the Quest for Order and Justice and Political Science: Concepts, Methods, and Topics, the editor of Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought, and the co-editor of Walk Away: When the Political Left Turns Right and Eric Voegelin Today: Voegelin’s Political Thought in the 21st Century.