L’enfer, c’est les autres, announced Garcin to two women doomed to stay in hell with him in Jean-Paul Sartre’sSartre, Jean-Paul wartime play Huis clos, presented for the first time in occupied Paris in May 1944 (SartreSartre, Jean-Paul, 1944, 128). In 2020, the formula suddenly gained a political actuality that SartreSartre, Jean-Paul would hardly have been able to imagine: the coronavirus obliges us to take this formula very literally. Every person must be regarded as a danger, as a possible bearer of the virus. The hell of the others must be avoided. Max WeberWeber, Max put a similar point more prosaically, when he qualified Augenmaß as one of the three criteria required from the politicianPolitician: Distanz zu den Dingen and Menschen (WeberWeber, Max, 1919, 75). The common point in SartreSartre, Jean-Paul and WeberWeber, Max, could be formulated as follows: to act politically, we must cultivate a distanceDistance, detachment both to other persons and to the issues dealt with.

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Politics at Distance: Parliamentary Politics in the Face of New Challenges

  • Kari Palonen

摘要

L’enfer, c’est les autres, announced Garcin to two women doomed to stay in hell with him in Jean-Paul Sartre’sSartre, Jean-Paul wartime play Huis clos, presented for the first time in occupied Paris in May 1944 (SartreSartre, Jean-Paul, 1944, 128). In 2020, the formula suddenly gained a political actuality that SartreSartre, Jean-Paul would hardly have been able to imagine: the coronavirus obliges us to take this formula very literally. Every person must be regarded as a danger, as a possible bearer of the virus. The hell of the others must be avoided. Max WeberWeber, Max put a similar point more prosaically, when he qualified Augenmaß as one of the three criteria required from the politicianPolitician: Distanz zu den Dingen and Menschen (WeberWeber, Max, 1919, 75). The common point in SartreSartre, Jean-Paul and WeberWeber, Max, could be formulated as follows: to act politically, we must cultivate a distanceDistance, detachment both to other persons and to the issues dealt with.