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“bernard charbonneau”

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  • The Green Light

    A Self-Critique of the Ecological Movement

    by Bernard Charbonneau ...
    Translated by Christian Roy ...
    The Green Light ('Le Feu Vert') offers an original and profound exploration of the roots of environmental philosophy and the Anthropocene. Bernard Charbonneau situates the wellspring of the ecological movement in the dialectics of Nature and Freedom, and their needful but uneasy joining against the totalizing system of technological society that threatens them both. Using this paradoxical tension ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    by James C. Scott ...
    Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics-the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Green Halo

    A Bird's-Eye View of Ecological Ethics

    by Erazim Kohak ...
    The Green Halo is a highly readable introduction to the vast field of contemporary ecological thought. It is a basic education in environmental philosophy and a welcome propadeutic for understanding the most crucial problem facing humankind in the coming century: How can humans live on this earth so that they do not destroy the preconditions for their own existence? ... Read more

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  • The Unconscious Civilization

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    From the author of Voltaire's Bastards comes a philosophical examination of how corporatism has become so deeply ingrained into our society, how it's destroying democracy, and how we can fight against it.In this intellectual tour de force John Ralston Saul argues that our society is only superficially based on the individual and democracy, and the West now toils unconsciously in the grip of a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Perspectives on Our Age: Jacques Ellul Speaks on his Life and Work

    by Willem Vanderburg, Jacques Ellul ...
    Originally broadcast on CBC Radio's Ideas as a series of interviews, Jacques Ellul's first-person approach here makes his ideas accessible to readers looking for new ways of understanding our society, and also gives unique new insight into Ellul's life, his work, and the origins and development of his beliefs and theories. Jacques Ellul, historian, theologian, and sociologist, was one of the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse

    Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings

    by Pascal Bruckner ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Distrust of progress and science, calls for individual and collective self-sacrifice to ‘save the planet’ and cultivation of fear: behind the carbon commissars, a dangerous and counterproductive ecological catastrophism is gaining ground.Modern society’s ... Read more

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  • The European Identity

    Historical and Cultural Realities We Cannot Deny

    by Stephen Green ...
    Series series Haus Curiosities
    What—if anything—do the twenty-eight member states of the European Union have in common? Amidst all the variety, can one even speak of a European identity? In this timely book, Stephen Green explores these questions and argues for the necessity of the European voice in the international community.Green points out that Europeans can readily define the differences that separate them from others ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Revolution of Everyday Life

    by Raoul Vaneigem ...
    Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith ...
    Originally published just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life offered a lyrical and aphoristic critique of the “society of the spectacle” from the point of view of individual experience. Whereas Debord’s masterful analysis of the new historical conditions that triggered the uprisings of the 1960s armed the revolutionaries of the time ... Read more

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  • Shadow Work

    by Ivan Illich ...
    In five essays, followed by extensive notes and bibliographies, Ivan Illich embarks on a major historical and sociological analysis of modern man's economic existence. He traces and analyzes options which surpass the conventional political 'right-left' and the technological 'soft-hard' alternatives and presents the concept of the 'vernacular' domain: "...to name those acts of competence, lust or ... Read more

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  • The Society of the Spectacle

    by Guy Debord, Ron. Adams ...
    Debord describes and critiques the way we live. The power in these ideas lies in their ability to question, identify, and name the common assumptions of the present. Developing the concept of The Spectacle, he describes the “gaze” of contemporary society. From its publication just before, and ultimately influencing the May 1968 revolt in Paris and Occupy Wall Street, this book continues to ... Read more

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  • Convivial Futures

    Views from a Post-Growth Tomorrow

    Edited by Frank Adloff, Alain Caillé ...
    Series series X-Texte zu Kultur und Gesellschaft
    What steps are needed to make life better and more convivial? The Second Convivialist Manifesto (2020) has presented a short diagnosis of the current crises and sketches of a possible and desirable future. It has been a necessary work of theoretical synthesis, but preserving a viable world also requires passion. It is thus urgent to show what people would gain from a shift to a post-neoliberal and ... Read more

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  • Homo Economicus

    The (Lost) Prophet of Modern Times

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Translated by Susan Emanuel ...
    The West has long defined the pursuit of happiness in economic terms but now, in the wake of the 2007-8 financial crisis, it is time to think again about what constitutes our happiness.In this wide-ranging new book, the leading economist Daniel Cohen traces our current malaise back to the rise of homo economicus: for the last 200 years, the modern world has defined happiness in terms of material ... Read more

    $12.00 USD