Is It Tomorrow Yet?: Paradoxes of the Pandemic - Couverture rigide

Krastev, Ivan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 024148345X ISBN 13 : 9780241483459

Editeur : Allen Lane, 2020

Synopsis

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

One of our most scintillating public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the pandemic and helps us think our way through it

'We are able to imagine anything because we are being besieged by something that was considered unimaginable...'

Beneath the panic and bluster, beneath the confusing speeches and the conflicting advice, the Coronavirus pandemic acted, changing our world in the most profound ways. The tragic human cost and the economic devastation will be assessed and calculated for decades to come. But the pandemic also changed things in ways that are less easily expressed and understood. It has made bare the frayed contradictions of modern life. It has distorted things that seemed simple and settled. It has affirmed plain, uncomfortable truths.

In this brilliant, thought-provoking essay, Ivan Krastev, one of our most interesting thinkers today, explores the pandemic's immediate consequences and conceives of its long-term legacy. Will things be different for the communities most harmed, and for those who escaped the worst? Where are we now with the US and China, with the UK and Europe? And how do we think our way through the unthinkable?

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ivan Krastev is a fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, a contributing opinion writer for the International New York Times and, most recently, the author of the widely acclaimed After Europe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Allen Lane
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 024148345X
• ISBN 13: 9780241483459
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible