Civility during Covid-19: Necessary, but Paradoxical and in Need of Further Development?

Sune Lægaard*

*Corresponding author

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Abstract

Civility is an important theoretical category, both for political theory generally and in order to understand and discuss the many issues raised by the Covid-19 crisis, as well exemplified by Matteo Bonotti and Steven Zech’s book Recovering Civility during COVID-19. Bonotti and Zech’s examples of issues during Covid-19 related to civility as politeness do, however, indicate more general problem relating to civility, which might amount to a paradox of civility. Furthermore, their discussion of justificatory civility indicates that there may be further aspects of relevance than the usual distinctions between public and non-public reasons from the public reason literature.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftNotizie di Politeia
Vol/bind38
Udgave nummer145
Sider (fra-til)93-97
Antal sider5
ISSN1128-2401
StatusUdgivet - 2022

Emneord

  • Civil society
  • Civility
  • Covid-19
  • Justification
  • Politeness
  • Public reason

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