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Пандемията, предизвикана от Kовид-19: Homo hygienicus vs. Homo hapticus
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Homo hygienicus vs. Homo hapticus

Author(s): Nina Nikolova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Health and medicine and law, Human Ecology, Political Ecology
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: Covid 19; homo hygienicus; homo hapticus

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses so-called points of intersection and short-circuits between homo hygienicus and homo hapticus. The global virus Covid 19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented hygienist obsession and a panic fear of physical proximity and contact. It has made clearly visible some longue-durée trends in European cultural history which I would summarize namely as a constant advancing of homo hygienicus at the expense of a steady declining of homo hapticus. Against this backdrop, I venture the hope of forming an ecological homo hapticus whose quintessence could be defined as follows: a touch that actively refrains from itself.

  • Issue Year: 54/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 482-495
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Bulgarian