Volume 64, Issue 4, Fall 2020
Philosophy in a Time of Pandemic
Andrew Benjamin
Pages 833-837
Solidarity, Populism and COVID-19
Working Notes
The presence of COVID-19 has elicited a range of philosophical responses. The aim of this paper is to engage with the position advanced by Giorgio Agamben. Part of the critique of Agamben involves critique of populism. In response to populism the paper advances a different philosophical position this time ground in the concept of solidarity. The work of Hannah Arendt provides the basis for this response.