Open AccessIdentity approaches of the pandemic in Romanian philosophical literature
Author(s) -
Gheorghe Bobina
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista de filozofie, sociologie şi ştiinţe politice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-4160
pISSN - 1857-2294
DOI - 10.53783/18572294.21.186.13
Subject(s) - epistemology , metaphor , prudence , philosophical analysis , politics , objectivity (philosophy) , pandemic , postmodernism , impossibility , philosophical theory , identity (music) , sociology , biopower , state (computer science) , philosophy , political science , law , aesthetics , medicine , covid-19 , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , linguistics , pathology , algorithm , computer science
The pandemic phenomenon produces at least two types of general reactions, some quite noteworthy. Some philosophers argue that now is not the time to think, but to help society in the war against the virus. This attitude is justified through the prudence given by the act of speculation and expresses a narrow and conformist conception of philosophy. On the other hand, there are philosophers who, however, demand an active involvement, stating that philosophy does not intend to replace the particular sciences, nor has claims to the domination and control of nature, or to reduce the real to meaningless and manipulative objectivity. In the Romanian philosophical literature, there are not too many attempts to propose an understanding of the current pandemic situation. Among the articles on sociological, political sciences, we highlight an attempt to identify the pandemic as a philosophical-political metaphor. Three philosophical-political metaphors of the Coronavirus disease are emphasized: Metaphorical Description 1: The State of Viral Exception. Emergency state. Metaphorical description 2: The symbolic precipitate of the postmodern condition. Metaphorical description 3: Biopolitics. An extensive essay dedicated to the various philosophical aspects of the pandemic is also analyzed, which contains several important compartments, starting with viruses, pandemics, Covid-19 and ending with predictions regarding the shift that occurs into the paradigm of social life.