title: The coronavirus challenge to modern anthropocentrism
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metadata.value: Georgopoulou, Panagiota
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-03-17T10:10:42Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-03-17T10:10:42Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.value: Georgopoulou P. The coronavirus challenge to modern anthropocentrism. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 2021, vol. 14, issue 4, pp. 318–329.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2021.402
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/35807
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Following Goya’s painting “Duel with Cudgels” as metaphor, with which Michel Serres opens
  his book The Natural Contract, this article argues that the coronavirus pandemic, with its devastating
  impact on our lives, dismantles the modern anthropocentric framework. It thrusts us
  violently into a post-anthropocentric perspective, which dislocates the human from the center
  of being and invites us to understand human existence in relation to nonhuman others such as
  the planet, the environment, animals, and technologies. However, at this critical moment, instead
  of seeing the pandemic crisis as a wake-up call for a shift of focus from the anthropocentric
  to a post-anthropocentric perspective, the dominant ways of understanding it on public
  discourse keep framing it in anthropocentric terms. As this discusses, taking as an indicative
  case the first wave of the pandemic in Greece, from March to June 2020, what seems to be a
  common ground in the rhetoric of the media, politicians, and a significant part of scientists,
  is that more or less almost all of them share and uphold the dividing lines between humannonhuman,
  society-nature, ideologically obsessed with human superiority despite evidence
  to the contrary. In this respect, the post-anthropocentric challenge due to the coronavirus
  pandemic seems to have been postponed until further notice. Thus, as we are stuck on the old
  anthropocentric business as usual, one of the fundamental issues of human societies in the 21st
  century, that being man’s fragile relationships with Planet Earth and other co-species, remains
  a blind spot, hindering appropriate action.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Sociology;Volume 14; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: COVID-19
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: coronavirus pandemic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: modern anthropocentrism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: post-anthropocentrism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: posthumanism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: coronavirus public discourse
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The coronavirus challenge to modern anthropocentrism
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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