Abstract
For historians of the twentieth century, the politics and discourse of the Covid pandemic closely resemble fundamental patterns of “high modernity”, a type of modern society that was prevalent in Europe and North America from the late nineteenth century into the 1970s. The return of claims to expert rule, the political attempt at grand social engineering, and the quest for holism are indicators for a continuation of those mechanisms, under conditions of crisis, into the twenty-first century. They may be analyzed as “dispositives” in the Foucauldian sense, as regulatory mechanisms at the juncture of knowledge, discourse, and power. As the example of Germany shows, the politics of Covid also reaffirm path dependencies in national trajectories of political culture and political economy.
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