Der geistig-kulturelle Umgang mit der Covid-19-Pandemie und ihrer Wirtschaftskrise als Testfall
- Why has the global West (North America, Europe) handled the covid-19 pandemic and the corresponding economic crisis so much worse than the global East (East Asia)? The crises demonstrate the degree to which the West is shaped by its forms of competition and the East by its forms of cooperation. In the West, we have become habitualised to American neoliberalism over the last two generations. In the East, varieties of neo-Confucianism and neo-Buddhism have been transformed into national cultures. The way humans understand their position in the world intellectually and react to crises according to corresponding habit makes an effective difference. The present comparison between global East and West makes use of Hannah Arendt's conception of politics and the shared world as well as of Helmuth Plessner's conception of mediated immediacy in forms of modern biopower. The pandemic is a catalyst within the decline of the West and the rise of the East.
Author details: | Hans-Peter KrügerORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2021-0004 |
ISSN: | 0012-1045 |
ISSN: | 2192-1482 |
Title of parent work (German): | Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie : Zweimonatsschrift der internationalen philosophischen Forschung |
Subtitle (German): | Zum Vergleich des globalen Westens und des globalen Ostens Ende 2020 |
Subtitle (English): | comparing the global West and the global East at the end of 2020 |
translated title (English): | The intellectual and cultural approach to the Covid19-pandemic and its economic crisis as a test case |
Publisher: | De Gruyter |
Place of publishing: | Berlin |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | German |
Date of first publication: | 2021/03/23 |
Publication year: | 2021 |
Release date: | 2023/01/19 |
Tag: | Arendt; Hannah; Helmuth Plessner; biopolitics; biopower; future world history; global; history; mediated immediacy; self in competition; self in cooperation; shared world |
Volume: | 69 |
Issue: | 1 |
Number of pages: | 31 |
First page: | 67 |
Last Page: | 97 |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Philosophie |
DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 10 Philosophie / 100 Philosophie und Psychologie |
Peer review: | Referiert |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |