La pandemia come crisi e le implicazioni teorico-politiche delle teorie alternative

Alfredo Ferrara

Abstract


Il paper analizza la pandemia da COVID-19 attraverso l’utilizzo del concetto di crisi, delineandone un quadro teorico facente riferimento ad alcuni scritti di Koselleck, Habermas e Debray. A partire da tale cornice teorica viene poi affrontata l’importanza che assume l’indagine sulle cause di una crisi ed il perché non possa che produrre un conflitto interpretativo. Nello specifico della crisi pandemica viene analizzata l’emersione nello spazio pubblico di teorie alternative a quella avallata dalla comunità scientifica e ne viene proposta una tipizzazione in due tesi (una basata sull’incidente di laboratorio e l’altra sulla guerra batteriologica) di cui vengono analizzate le implicazioni politiche e teoriche.

 

The paper analyses the COVID-19 pandemic using the concept of crisis, defining a theoretical framework referring to some writings by Koselleck, Habermas and Debray. Within this theoretical framework, what is analysed is the importance of the investigation into the causes of a crisis and why this investigation produces an interpretative conflict. Specifically with regard to the pandemic crisis, the rise of alternative theories to the one endorsed by the scientific community is examined, and a typification is proposed in two theses (one based on the laboratory incident and the other on bacteriological warfare) whose political and theoretical implications are analysed.


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COVID-19; pandemia; crisi; causalità; salto di specie; COVID-19; pandemic; crisis; causality; spillover

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