The Covid-19 Crisis: A Conflict between Rationalities

Based on Max Weber, we can say that the current crisis is a crisis between two spheres, each with its own logic. On the one hand, the sphere of knowledge, that is, the role of scientists, epidemiologists, etc., and on the other hand, the sphere of the economy. What is new, what brings novelty to this crisis in which we are submerged, is that after forty years of neoliberal globalization, something absolutely external to the economic sphere, a virus, exposes the consequences of decades in which the economic logic, the logic of capital, expanded unlimitedly, without other spheres being able to curb its expansion.