INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

VOL. 14 (2021) NO. 2

Contents

• Introduction to the Special Issue on Disease and Politics by Its Editors

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  Agnes Horvath and Marius Ion Benta

• ARTICLES

• The New Age of Disease: Technocratic Mimetism

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  Agnes Horvath

• The Firefighter Effect: Social Pathology and Corruption in Liminal Occupations

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  Marius Ion Benta

• “Nothing New in The West”: Paralleling the War Rhetoric and Measures of the COVID-19 Pandemic with the WW1 Horrors Described by Erich Maria Remarque

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  Janos Mark Szakolczai

• Does Sickness Have a Meaning?

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  Egor Novikov

• On Imbecility as a Contemporary Mode of Exercising Power: Davos Thinking as a Version of Modern Gnosticism

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  Arpad Szakolczai

• Civilisational Complexity and Elite Decay

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  Paul O’Connor

• The six competing types of domination in the early 21st century: Towards a new Weberian taxonomy

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  Ivan Szelenyi and Péter Mihályi

• BOOK REVIEW

• Franziska Hoppen, Liminality and the Philosophy of Presence: A new direction in political theory

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  Evan Boyle

• BOOK REVIEW ESSAY

• Bert Olivier, Why Nothing Seems to Matter Any More: A philosophical study of our nihilistic age

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  Gilbert Germain

• NOTES ON THE AUTHORS

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