Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism

Soper, Kate

ISBN 10: 178873887X / ISBN 13: 9781788738873

Published by Verso, 2020

Seller Inventory # 178873887X-4-34985074

Synopsis:

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 ourselves 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? In Alternative Hedonism, 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, she calls for a renewed emphasis on the joys of being, one that is capable of collective happiness not in consumption but by creating a future that allows not only for more free time, and less conventional and more creative ways of using it, but also for more fulfilling ways of working and existing. This is an urgent and necessary intervention into debates on climate change.

About the Author: Kate Soper is emerita professor of philosophy at London Metropolitan University. She has published widely on environmental philosophy and theory of needs and consumption.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative ...
Publisher: Verso
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Fair