Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters: Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID

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Introduction: The Politics of Diseases and Disasters
SECTION I: In the Time of COVID
	1. The Permanentisation of Emergencies: COVID Understood through Liminality
	2. World War IV and the COVID Apocalypse
	3. Factions and Not Facts: David Hume, James Madison, and America’s Response to COVID
	4. Solidarity in Action: Catholic Social Teaching in Response to COVID
	5. Hull House: “An Oasis in a Desert of Disease” .
SECTION II: Modern Solutions, Modern Problems
	6. A Remedy for It: Locke, Plague, and the Two Treatises of Government
	7. Disaster, Nature, and Baconian Science
	8. Perfectibility, Disaster, and Disease: Rousseau’s Application of the Natural Goodness of Man
	9. The Role of “Pestilence” in the Historical and Political Writings of Bartolomé de Las Casas
	10. Plagues and Globalism
SECTION III: God, Plagues, and Empires in Antiquity
	11. Saint Augustine and the Politics of Sovereign Charity: Love and Disaster in The City of God
	12. On the Uses and Abuses of Disaster for Life: St. Augustine’s Theo-politics of Flood
	13. Sophocles’s Philoctetes: Disease and the Interconnected Needs
	14. Plague and Empire in Thucydides’s The Peloponnesian War
	15. Athens and Oran: Heroisms in Two Plagues
SECTION IV: Reflections on Surviving Disasters
	16. The Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster of 2011: Fukushima’s Dialogical Negotiations of Identity
	17. Capturing Disaster: Redefining Trauma through “Going Ashore” and The Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004
	18. Hurricane Katrina: Finding Freedom in James Lee Burke’s The Tin Roof Blowdown
	19. 9/11 and the Solitary Soul in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man
	20. Catastrophe and Community in José Saramago’s Blindness
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