Times of Crisis: What the Financial Crisis Revealed and How to Reinvent Our Lives and Future

ISBN-13: 9781501307898 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 96 str.

Michel Serres

Opis

For Michel Serres, economic crises are earthquakes caused by societal tectonic plates. The current crisis erupted because of the widening discrepancy between major social changes and institutions that have remained the same since WWII.Serres, one of the first to bring nature into the political, writes, "To destroy, kill, exploit is worthless. In the long run, it means destroying ourselves." At a time when the world population has grown so much that it is exhausting natural resources and the environment, we need to rethink cultural, social, and political dynamics. Serres argues that geopolitics and economics will no longer be a two-player game, between West and East, for example, but a three-player one, in which is Earth will be the third partner. This book is one of hope as it calls for a new world and extols the importance of science for our future and political institutions. Here, Serres demonstrates an optimistic outlook in a clear and luminous language that offers new paths for reflection and, ultimately, a better life for Earth and its inhabitants.

Recenzje

For this great French philosopher, the financial crisis is but a superficial fault line in the Humanity earthquake. He demonstrates this in Le Temps des Crises, a manifesto that humbly wishes to save the planet. Trends-Tendances

Spis treści

Definitions of the word crisis Chapter One: SIX EVENTS Millenary novelties The global crisis Chapter Two: THE THINGS OF THE WORLD Two player games and three player games Biogea The World's speech Chapter 3: KNOWLEDGE AND BEHAVIORS The future of the sciences Two oaths Solutions to the crisis? Index

O autorze

Michel Serres was Professor in the History of Science at Stanford University, USA and a member of the Académie Française, France. A renowned and popular philosopher, he was a prize-winning author of essays and books, such as The Five Senses (2008), Genesis (1995), and Biogée (2013). Anne-Marie Feenberg-Dibon is Associate Professor of the Humanities, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada.