In 2020, two crises emerged into prominence in the United States and other parts of the world: (1) the flourishing of the COVID-19 virus, in which the polarization and relativization of knowledge have hobbled efforts to prevent pandemic spread, and (2) the killing of George Floyd which has stirred worldwide protests against centuries of racial oppression and unbared an underlying racist ideology about the seemingly lesser value of Black people. It might seem that both these crises are unrelated, but this article argues that both crises are rooted in a common phenomenon, the surge of the pursuit of everyday pragmatic mastery beyond its legitimate boundary. This pursuit of mastery has instrumentalized structures of discourse, thereby undermining Alfred Schutz’s paradigm of the well-informed citizen seeking to understand dispassionately imposed relevances and the non-pragmatic provinces of meaning that might have restrained the pursuit of such mastery, such as the provinces of theoretical science and religious experience. As regards racism, the pursuance of such mastery results in transgressing and eliminating through violence the ethical boundaries the Levinasian other prescribes. These twin crises are not disparate happenings occurring now to remedy the tedium of the pandemic, but are bound together at the hip.

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Covid-19和种族主义的双重危机：务实的掌握，理论，宗教和伦理

2020年，美国和世界其他地区爆发了两次危机：（1）COVID-19病毒的蓬勃发展，其中知识的两极分化和相对化阻碍了防止大流行扩散的努力，以及（2 ）乔治·弗洛伊德（George Floyd）的杀戮激起了全球范围内对数百年来种族压迫的抗议活动，并且揭露了关于黑人看似价值较低的潜在种族主义意识形态。看来这两种危机是无关的，但本文认为这两种危机都源于一种普遍现象，即追求日常务实掌握超越其合法界限的浪潮。这种对掌握的追求具有工具化的话语结构，从而破坏了阿尔弗雷德·舒茨（Alfred Schutz）的范式，该范式旨在使知识渊博的公民寻求理解，而这种非理性的省份可能会限制对这种掌握的追求，例如理论科学和宗教经验的省份。关于种族主义，对这种掌握的追求导致通过暴力侵犯和消除了列维纳斯主义者所规定的道德界限。这些双生危机并不是为了弥补大流行病的烦恼而发生的不同事件，而是在臀部捆绑在一起。追求这种精通会导致超越和消除暴力，从而消除了列维纳斯主义者所规定的道德界限。这些双生危机并不是为了弥补大流行病的烦恼而发生的不同事件，而是在臀部捆绑在一起。追求这种精通会导致超越和消除暴力，从而消除了列维纳斯主义者所规定的道德界限。这些双生危机并不是为了弥补大流行病的烦恼而发生的不同事件，而是在臀部捆绑在一起。