Even this book cannot deny a certain fatigue with the subject of the pandemic in which we live:
No one dares to predict when we will wake up from the current state one in which our whole
lives revolve around the virus. Homo politicus seems to be moved by nothing other than
rehearsing to keep on the lookout homo juridicus poses as a crisis manager homo economicus
tries to adapt its models of rational utility maximization to the new challenges homo
aestheticus suffers deeply from the lack of imaginary surpluses that catapult us beyond
ourselves as we remain caught in the profanity of illustrative aesthetics homo religiosus
asks a new the question of meaning for the faithful and homo protestus invokes the figure of
civil disobedience and an understanding of freedom that no longer knows how to distinguish
between the right to harm oneself and the clear prohibition of harming others! As for homo
sociologicus homo historicus and homo philosophicus: What standpoints on thecorona world do
they have to offer? How do they reflect the validity of contradictory permanently changing
normative orders in times of the Covid-19 pandemic? Against this back ground the contributions
to this volume from all over the world paint a picture of the permanence of the exception.
