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Coronavirus: return of the tragic and "reserves of humanity"

2020-03-18T20:01:23.384Z


FIGAROVOX / ANALYSIS - Feeling of security, relation to science, to the media, to leisure ... The danger of the Covid-19 upsets our habits and our perceptions, deciphers the philosopher and sociologist * Jean-Pierre Le Goff.


A coronavirus pandemic has arisen in our daily lives and the anxiety of serious illness and death has entered social relationships. It is our world and our familiar landmarks which vacillate with possible effects of amazement. In a developed society of the 21st century, one could believe that the epidemics that marked history were now behind us. We saw the pandemic coming without really believing it. It took some time to recognize the importance of the danger and its devastating effects which did not remain confined to distant countries and were to affect, to varying degrees, all generations.

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The event shook up and weakened habits and lifestyles which until then could have appeared to us as intangible. These were so inherent in modern life that we paid no attention to them. Today, what seemed “natural” to us ceases to be obvious. We are confronted with the tragic and sent back to the limits of

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