TITLE:
Governing a Crisis Society
AUTHORS:
Daniel Innerarity
KEYWORDS:
Crisis, Governing, COVID, Climate Change, Democracy
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Political Science,
Vol.12 No.2,
April
1,
2022
ABSTRACT: The persistence of crises in our societies and,
above all, the fact that overcoming them is linked to certain political
transformations raises the question not only of the nature of these crises and
their corresponding transformations, but also of the capacity of democratic
societies to carry them through. The perspective of political philosophy and
sociological theory can help us to identify such situations and objectives, as
well as the peculiar difficulties of our governments to successfully manage
such complex crises. The rationale of this paper is to analyse the nature of
these crises, to ask about the kinds of changes they seem to demand, to explain
what ultimately makes such changes so difficult, and to propose a conceptual
framework for understanding the kind of intervention in society that would be
necessary.