Towards a post-pandemic social contract

Domonkos SikAuthor biography Domonkos Sik is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Eötvös Loránd University , alumni of CEU-IAS , His research deals with various topics in critical theory including political culture and mental disorders in late modernity, His work has appeared in such publications as The Sociological Review, European Journal of Social Theory and Culture, and Psychiatry, He has written several monographs including Radicalism and Indifference , Peter Lang, and Empty Suffering

Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology

Published online on December 30, 2022

Abstract

Thesis Eleven, Ahead of Print.
Social contract theories serve a twofold purpose: by addressing acute crises, they elaborate solutions to long-standing social paradoxes. The article reinterprets the stakes of the Covid pandemic from this perspective. Firstly, the long-lasting structural ...