Utopianism for a Dying Planet (eBook)

Life after Consumerism

Gregory Claeys (Autor)

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2022
608 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23669-8 (ISBN)

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How the utopian tradition offers answers to today's environmental crisesIn the face of Earth's environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won't save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound changes in individual and collective behavior. Utopianism for a Dying Planet examines the ways the expansive history of utopian thought, from its origins in ancient Sparta and ideas of the Golden Age through to today's thinkers, can offer moral and imaginative guidance in the face of catastrophe. The utopian tradition, which has been critical of conspicuous consumption and luxurious indulgence, might light a path to a society that emphasizes equality, sociability, and sustainability.Gregory Claeys unfolds his argument through a wide-ranging consideration of utopian literature, social theory, and intentional communities. He defends a realist definition of utopia, focusing on ideas of sociability and belonging as central to utopian narratives. He surveys the development of these themes during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before examining twentieth- and twenty-first-century debates about alternatives to consumerism. Claeys contends that the current global warming limit of 1.5C (2.7F) will result in cataclysm if there is no further reduction in the cap. In response, he offers a radical Green New Deal program, which combines ideas from the theory of sociability with proposals to withdraw from fossil fuels and cease reliance on unsustainable commodities.An urgent and comprehensive search for antidotes to our planet's destruction, Utopianism for a Dying Planet asks for a revival of utopian ideas, not as an escape from reality, but as a powerful means of changing it.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.9.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: Advocacy • Affluenza • Age of Enlightenment • Aldous Huxley • all souls' day • Animal echolocation • Apollonian and Dionysian • Asceticism • Astrology • Atheism • Belongingness • Beyond Freedom and Dignity • boycott • Capitalism • Carbon Footprint • Cave swiftlet • Celebrity • Civil disobedience • Clothing • cognitive science • Commodity • Consciousness • Conspiracy Theory • Consumerism • Continental Shelf • Costume • Counterculture • Croesus • Crust (geology) • Cultural revolution • Currency • Dystopia • Earth Day • Ecocide • Ecofascism • economic liberalism • Ecovillage • egalitarianism • End of History • enthusiasm • Environmental economics • Environmentalist • Epicureanism • Ethos • Facebook • Fiction • Fossil fuel • Fossil-fuel power station • Frank Lloyd Wright • Freedom From • Future of the Earth • gas lighting • Gasoline • Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft • George Orwell • global warming • Gnosticism • Golden Age • Good and evil • grammar • Greenhouse Gas • Gustav Landauer • Hedonism • Heterotopia (space) • human behavior • Imaginary voyage • influencer marketing • infrasound • insurance • intergovernmental panel on climate change • James Tully (philosopher) • job guarantee • Karl Mannheim • Karl Marx • language • language production • Late Capitalism • Laziness • Lexicon • liberal democracy • Liberalism • Libertarian Party (United States) • Liminality • Literature • Luxury Goods • martyr • Marxism • Maxwell's demon • Medical Device • Melting • Methane (data page) • Modernity • New Paradigm • New Utopia • Nuclear power • nuclear weapon • Nuclear Winter • Pensioner • Person • Petrus Camper • Philosopher • Physiocracy • Planetes • Political Party • pollution • Prediction • Primitivism • progressivism • Propaganda • prosperity without growth • Protest • Pub • radical philosophy • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Reform Movement • Reincarnation • Relativism • renewable energy • Renewable Fuels • Restitution • Retirement • save the planet • Scarcity • Science Fiction • Science Fiction Studies • Scientist • Selfishness • Sense of Community • Sentience • Sharing • Shrew • Simplicity • Sitting Bull • Slavery • Social Movement • Southern Europe • sustainability • sustainable consumption • Tarsier • tavern • Technological fix • Technology • THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION • The Last Stage • The Most Extreme • Theodor W. Adorno • theory • The Revenge of Gaia • The Road to Serfdom • The World Without Us • Thorstein Veblen • Toothed whale • Totalitarianism • Understanding • Urban revolution • Utopia • Utopian and dystopian fiction • utopian socialism • utopian studies • veganism • Vegetarianism • victory garden • Viewing (funeral) • Wealth • well-being • World Peace • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23669-0 / 0691236690
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23669-8 / 9780691236698