The Twin Crises of Covid-19 and Racism: Pragmatic Mastery, Theory, Religion, and Ethics

In 2020, two crises emerged into prominence in the United States and other parts of the world: (1) the flourishing of the COVID-19 virus, in which the polarization and relativization of knowledge have hobbled efforts to prevent pandemic spread, and (2) the killing of George Floyd which has stirred w...

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Autor principal:	Barber Michael D.
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Publicado:	De Gruyter 2021
Materias:	pragmatic mastery white supremacy well-informed citizen religious province of meaning theoretical province of meaning schutz levinas relevances ableism Religion (General) BL1-50
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d7d33eb119ff49a487e5ebc0aa99063e2021-12-05T14:11:01ZThe Twin Crises of Covid-19 and Racism: Pragmatic Mastery, Theory, Religion, and Ethics2300-657910.1515/opth-2020-0147https://doaj.org/article/d7d33eb119ff49a487e5ebc0aa99063e2021-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2020-0147https://doaj.org/toc/2300-6579In 2020, two crises emerged into prominence in the United States and other parts of the world: (1) the flourishing of the COVID-19 virus, in which the polarization and relativization of knowledge have hobbled efforts to prevent pandemic spread, and (2) the killing of George Floyd which has stirred worldwide protests against centuries of racial oppression and unbared an underlying racist ideology about the seemingly lesser value of Black people. It might seem that both these crises are unrelated, but this article argues that both crises are rooted in a common phenomenon, the surge of the pursuit of everyday pragmatic mastery beyond its legitimate boundary. This pursuit of mastery has instrumentalized structures of discourse, thereby undermining Alfred Schutz’s paradigm of the well-informed citizen seeking to understand dispassionately imposed relevances and the non-pragmatic provinces of meaning that might have restrained the pursuit of such mastery, such as the provinces of theoretical science and religious experience. As regards racism, the pursuance of such mastery results in transgressing and eliminating through violence the ethical boundaries the Levinasian other prescribes. These twin crises are not disparate happenings occurring now to remedy the tedium of the pandemic, but are bound together at the hip.Barber Michael D.De Gruyterarticlepragmatic masterywhite supremacywell-informed citizenreligious province of meaningtheoretical province of meaningschutzlevinasrelevancesableismReligion (General)BL1-50ENOpen Theology, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 69-82 (2021)
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description	In 2020, two crises emerged into prominence in the United States and other parts of the world: (1) the flourishing of the COVID-19 virus, in which the polarization and relativization of knowledge have hobbled efforts to prevent pandemic spread, and (2) the killing of George Floyd which has stirred worldwide protests against centuries of racial oppression and unbared an underlying racist ideology about the seemingly lesser value of Black people. It might seem that both these crises are unrelated, but this article argues that both crises are rooted in a common phenomenon, the surge of the pursuit of everyday pragmatic mastery beyond its legitimate boundary. This pursuit of mastery has instrumentalized structures of discourse, thereby undermining Alfred Schutz’s paradigm of the well-informed citizen seeking to understand dispassionately imposed relevances and the non-pragmatic provinces of meaning that might have restrained the pursuit of such mastery, such as the provinces of theoretical science and religious experience. As regards racism, the pursuance of such mastery results in transgressing and eliminating through violence the ethical boundaries the Levinasian other prescribes. These twin crises are not disparate happenings occurring now to remedy the tedium of the pandemic, but are bound together at the hip.
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The Twin Crises of Covid-19 and Racism: Pragmatic Mastery, Theory, Religion, and Ethics

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