"The corona crisis will be the end of globalisation."
"The euro and Schengen are doomed."
"Governments use virus control as a pretext to take our civil liberties away."
Locked up in our homes we see prophecies like these rolling over our screens on a permanent basis. Italian philosopher Maurizio Ferraris, quarantined in Milan, sees them too.
Ferraris, 64, is a professor at the University of Turin. His age g...
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Caroline de Gruyter is a Europe correspondent and columnist for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. This article has been adapted from one of her columns in NRC.