Social theory is developing in response to the coronavirus (COVID) crisis. Fundamental questions about social justice in the relationship of individuals to society are raised by Delanty in his review of political philosophy, including Agamben, Foucault and Žižek. However, the focus on the libertarian critique of authoritarianism is not enough. The social democratic critique of neoliberalism lies at the centre of the contesting responses to the COVID crisis. A social democratic perspective on public health, democracy and state action is contrasted with the anti-statists of left and right. This is addressed in debates on the relationship between science and governance, the place of crisis in theories of change and the conceptualisation of alternative forms of social formation. The crisis initiated by the pandemic, cascading through society, from health to economy, to polity and into violence, includes a contestation between social democratic and neoliberal visions of alternative forms of society.

针对冠状病毒（COVID）危机的社会理论正在发展。德兰蒂在对包括阿甘本，福柯和齐泽克在内的政治哲学的评论中提出了有关个人与社会之间的社会正义的基本问题。但是，仅仅集中于对自由主义的威权主义批评是不够的。对新自由主义的社会民主批判是对COVID危机的有力回应的中心。社会民主主义关于公共卫生，民主和国家行动的观点与左派和右派的反国家主义者形成对比。在有关科学与治理之间的关系，危机在变革理论中的位置以及社会形成的替代形式的概念化的辩论中解决了这一问题。由大流行引发的危机，遍及整个社会，