The global pandemic is a phenomenon which has not been eperienced in the West for generations. It will have major effects on the way we think about health risks, social relatiions, political responsibility and economic activity. But will there be a specific effect of it on the way we practice the humanities, as professional researchers, and in particular, on the questions, methodology and significance of political philosophy?
Dear Prof. Hörcher!
You spotted a relevant topic. May I argue that the impact is a case - and context dependent problem to determine. Academic institutions have to mitigate negative consequences:
1) Chou, MH. The politics of academic knowledge and time in the worlds of higher education. Int Polit Rev 9, 134–138 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41312-021-00093-2 Free access: Article The politics of academic knowledge and time in the worlds of...
2) Alfredo Joignant, Mauro Basaure (2021). Crisis and public intellectuals: From the transnational intellectual field to the digital global public circuit, Sociology Compass, Volume 15, Issue 5, Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soc4.12875?af=R
Yours sincerely, Bulcsu Szekely
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