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Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism

Kate Soper
3.61/5 (333 ratings)
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An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life

The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endless growth, and endless consumption of cheap disposable commodities, isn’t only destroying the world, it is damaging us and our way of being. How do we stop the impending catastrophe, and how can we create a movement capable of confronting it head-on?

Philosopher Kate Soper offers an urgent plea for a new vision of the good life, one that is capable of delinking prosperity from endless growth. Instead, Soper calls for renewed emphasis on the joys of being that are currently being denied, and shows the way to creating a future that allows not only for more free time, and less conventional and more creative ways of using it, but also for fairer and more fulfilling ways of working and existing. This is an urgent and necessary intervention into debates on climate change.

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Format:
Pages:
225 pages
Publication:
2020
Publisher:
Verso
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
178873887X
ISBN13:
9781788738873
kindle Asin:
B084V7VC1M

Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism

Kate Soper
3.61/5 (333 ratings)
Read Download
An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life

The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endless growth, and endless consumption of cheap disposable commodities, isn’t only destroying the world, it is damaging us and our way of being. How do we stop the impending catastrophe, and how can we create a movement capable of confronting it head-on?

Philosopher Kate Soper offers an urgent plea for a new vision of the good life, one that is capable of delinking prosperity from endless growth. Instead, Soper calls for renewed emphasis on the joys of being that are currently being denied, and shows the way to creating a future that allows not only for more free time, and less conventional and more creative ways of using it, but also for fairer and more fulfilling ways of working and existing. This is an urgent and necessary intervention into debates on climate change.

Reviews
Format:
Pages:
225 pages
Publication:
2020
Publisher:
Verso
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
178873887X
ISBN13:
9781788738873
kindle Asin:
B084V7VC1M

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