The Legitimization of Violence: Individual, Crowd, and Authority during the Covid-19 Pandemic

This book will be of interest to students, researchers, and scholars of biomedical and social sciences, as well as those working in the fields of public health and political philosophy.

Maia Kiladze is an Associate Professor in the School of Science and Technology at the University of Georgia. She earned a Ph.D. in Life Sciences from Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia) and has worked at the Department of Experimental Neurophysiology at the University Clinic of Bonn (Germany).

Vladimer Luarsabishvili is a Professor of School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Caucasus University, Tbilisi, Georgia, and a visiting professor at the University of the Frontier, Temuco, Chile. He received a Ph.D. in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from Madrid Autonomous University, Spain, and went onto postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His recent publications include Ideas and Methodologies in Historical Research (2022), Rethinking Mamardashvili: Philosophical Perspectives, Analytical Insights (2022), Teoría de la interideidad. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer y Miguel de Unamuno (2022), and Retórica Cultural: Metáfora, Contexto, Traducción. Las Voces de Rubén Darío, Miguel de Unamuno, Gabriel Aresti, Kirmen Uribe y Harkaitz Cano (2024).