Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World

Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World is a 2020 book by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. In this book, he posits that in order to avoid further global catastrophe due to coronavirus disease 2019, the world will need to implement a "new form of [...] communism", loosely defined as the construction of a "global organisation that can control and regulate the economy" along with a "global healthcare network", both marked by a general shift away from "market mechanisms".

Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World
AuthorSlavoj Žižek
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPolity
Publication date
March 24, 2020[1]

Žižek insists that "we should resist the temptation to treat the ongoing epidemic as something that has a deeper meaning".[2]

Reception

Yohann Koshy of The Guardian wrote that "Žižek has spent his career writing in anticipation of a world-historic moment like the coronavirus pandemic, a truly totalising event that would allow the Hegelian philosopher – Hegel's being a totalising philosophy – to deploy his skills on the frontline. But this first attempt from our philosophical key-worker is forgettable."[1]

Notes
  1. Koshy, Yohann (23 April 2020). "Pandemic! by Slavoj Žižek review – the philosopher provides his solution". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  2. Horton, Richard (30 May 2020). "After COVID-19—is an "alternate society" possible?". The Lancet. 395 (10238). doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31241-1. Retrieved 11 June 2020.


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