Ecologia e libertà" è un libro straordinariamente anticipatore. In esso la crisi della natura non si pone come esterna all'economia, alla società, alla politica, ne è semmai il volto estremo, il sintomo inaggirabile, l'ingiunzione cui non ci si può sottrarre procrastinando. André Gorz è tra i primi a chiederci di pensare la questione ambientale nella sua non-autosufficienza, nella sua impossibilità a spiegarsi da sé: essa dischiude infatti una...
∗ A major new work by one of the leading social and political thinkers of our time. ∗ Offers a fundamental reassessment of the future of work, at a time when the role of work in our lives is being transformed by profound economic and technological changes.
You're 82 years old. You've shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet you're still beautiful, graceful and desirable' - so begins Andre Gorz's 'open love letter' to the woman he has lived with for 58 years and who lies dying next to him. As one of France's leading post-war philosophers, Andre Gorz wrote many influential books, but nothing he wrote will be read as widely or remembered as long as this simple, passionate, beautiful lett...
Die Texte zu diesem Buch - grundlegende Schriften zur politischen Ökologie - hat André Gorz kurz vor seinem Tod im September 2007 zusammengestellt. Er schrieb dazu: 'Dass bei der Arbeit Herrschaft über uns ausgeübt wird, wissen wir seit etwa 170 Jahren. Nicht aber dass das Gleiche für unsere Bedürfnisse und Wünsche, unsere Gedanken und unser Selbstbild genauso gilt. Durch die Kritik des Modells unserer Konsumgesellschaft bin ich zum Ökologen a...
Autobiography, philosophical inquiry, confession - The Traitor is an unclassifiable and unforgettable book from one of France's most inspiring social critics. Written when Andre Gorz was 32 and rising to prominence in the Parisian existentialist milieu, The Traitor starts from an acute personal crisis, 'a state of absolute subjective misery', rooted in social and political alienation. Using psychoanalysis and Marxism, Gorz explores the origins...
In seinem Brief an D. hatte André Gorz geschrieben: "Ich habe die gründliche Erforschung, die ich mir vornahm, als ich Der Verräter schrieb, nicht wirklich geleistet. Es bleiben noch viele Dinge, die ich verstehen, klären muss."
Und dennoch geht das erste Buch, das Gorz - 1958 - auf Französisch veröffentlicht hat, schon sehr weit in der Selbsterforschung. Es ist unerbittlich und schonungslos in seiner Selbstentblößung und -kritik. Gorz erzählt...
Argues that the economic boom that accelerated in the 1990s and crashed so spectacularly in 2008 was based largely on an immaterial consumption of symbols and ideas, as capitalism tried to overcome the crisis of the formally industrial regime by throwing itself into a new, so-called knowledge economy.