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André Gorz

Author : Willy Gianinazzi
Publisher : French List
ISBN 13 : 9780857429889
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book André Gorz written by Willy Gianinazzi and published by French List. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and exhaustive biography of twentieth-century leftist philosopher André Gorz. Recognized as one of the most lucid and innovative critics of contemporary capitalism, André Gorz (1923-2007) was known for asking fundamental questions regarding the meaning of life and work. This first biography of a unique figure operating at the confluence of literature, philosophy, and journalism revisits half a century of intellectual and political life. Born Gerhart Hirsch in Vienna, he studied in Switzerland before opting to live and work in France. A self-taught existentialist thinker, he was constantly revising his view of the world, unafraid to break new theoretical ground in doing so. Influenced by Marx, Husserl, Sartre, and Illich, he had very close affinities with the new thinking on the Left that was coming out of Italy in the 1960s and 70s. He was also one of the first thinkers to shape political ecology and to advocate de-growth. The intellectual on the editorial board of Sartre's journal Les Temps Modernes, Gorz was also a mainstream journalist. He wrote in L'Express under the sobriquet Michel Bosquet before joining others in the creation of Le Nouvel Observateur. Through Gorz's life journey, we meet not only Sartre and de Beauvoir, but also Herbert Marcuse, Fidel Castro, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Ivan Illich, Félix Guattari, Antonio Negri, and many others. Beyond his poignant autobiographical narratives, The Traitor and Letter to D, which attest to his deep humanity, Gorz remains a precious guide for all who believe that another world is still possible.

Farewell to the Working Class

Author : André Gorz
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780861043644
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Farewell to the Working Class written by André Gorz and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: André Gorz argues that changes in the role of the work and labour process in the closing decades of the twentieth century have, once and for all, weakened the power of skilled industrial workers. Their place has been taken, says Gorz, by social movements such as the womenʹs movement and the green movement, and all those who refuse to accept the work ethic so fundamental to early capitalist societies. Provocative and heretical, Farewell to the Working Class is a classic study of labour and unemployment in the post-industrial world.

Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology

Author : André Gorz
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178168989X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology written by André Gorz and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major new book, Andre Gorz expands on the political implications of his prescient and influential Paths to Paradise and Critique of Economic Reason. Against the background of technological developments which have transformed the nature of work and the structure of the workforce, Gorz explores the new political agendas facing both left and right. Each is in disarray: the right, torn between the demands of capital and the 'traditional values' of its supporters, can only offer illusory solutions, while the left either capitulates to these or remains tempted by regressive, 'fundamentalist' projects inappropriate to complex modern societies. Identifying the grave risks posed by a dual society with a hyperactive minority of full-time workers confronting a silenced majority who are, at best, precariously employed, Gorz proposes a new definition of a key social conflict within Western societies in terms of the distribution of work and the form and content of non-working time. Taking into account changing cultural attitudes to work, he re-examines socialism's historical project-which, he contends, has always properly been to lay down the rules and limits within which economic raitonality may be permitted to function, not to create some statist, productivist countersystem. Above all, he offers a vital fresh perspective for the left, whose objective, in his view, must be to extend the sphere to autonomous human activity, and increase the possibilities for individual self-fulfilment.

Letter to D

Author : André Gorz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745680909
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Letter to D written by André Gorz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 André 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, André Gorz wrote many influential books, but nothing he wrote will be read as widely or remembered as long as this simple, passionate, beautiful letter to his dying wife. In a bittersweet postscript a year after Letter to D was published, a note pinned to the door for the cleaning lady marked the final chapter in an extraordinary love story. André Gorz and his terminally ill wife, Dorine, were found lying peacefully side by side, having taken their lives together. They simply could not live without one another. An international bestseller, Letter to D is the ultimate love story – and all the more poignant because it's true.

Critique of Economic Reason

Author : Andre Gorz
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1844676676
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Critique of Economic Reason written by Andre Gorz and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2011-01-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: André Gorz’s earlier books—from Ecology as Politics to Farewell to the Working Class and Paths to Paradise—have informed and inspired the most radical currents in Green movements in Europe and America over the last two decades. In Critique of Economic Reason, he offers his fullest account to date of the terminal crisis of a system where every activity and aspiration has been subjected to the rule of the market. By carefully delineating the existential and cultural limits of economic rationality, he emphasizes the urgent need to create a society which rejects the work ethic in favor of an emancipatory ethic of free time. At the heart of his alternative is an advocacy not of “full employment,” but of an equal distribution of the diminishing amount of necessary paid work. He presents a practical strategy for reducing the working week, and develops a radical version of a guaranteed wage for all. Above all, he argues that a utopian vision is now the only realistic proposal, and that “economic reason must be returned to its true—that is subordinate—place.”

Ecologica

Author : André Gorz
Publisher : Seagull Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781906497415
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book Ecologica written by André Gorz and published by Seagull Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of five articles and two interviews, compiled by the author himself as a kind of political testament, focuses on the ecological thinking he pioneered in Europe.

The Traitor

Author : Andre Gorz
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860919414
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book The Traitor written by Andre Gorz and published by Verso. This book was released on 1989-12-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography, philosophical inquiry, confession—The Traitor is an unclassifiable and unforgettable book from one of France’s most inspiring social critics. Written when André 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 and symptoms of this crisis and struggles towards a resolution which he finds at last in political commitment and self-affirmation. Few personal documents have ever been so rigorously analytical; few philosophical texts so vividly illuminated by the honest recall of painful experience. Gorz’s father was Jewish, his mother Catholic: his tormented childhood in Austria during the Anschluss, when he took refuge first in religious asceticism, then in a self-destructive identification with Nazism, is scrupulously recorded. So, too, is his adolescent exile in Switzerland, his early encounters with Sartre—who, as “Morel”, is a constant reference point—and the conflicts of his first love affairs. Sartre called The Traitor “an invitation to life.” It remains the most intimate and profound book to emerge from the existentialist movement, while providing remarkable insights into André Gorz’s subsequent work.

Paths to Paradise

Author : Andre Gorz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Paths to Paradise written by Andre Gorz and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are moving into a world where a power elite allocates jobs: where commodities buy consumers: where socialist as well as capitalist dogma is an obstacle to comprehension.In this book, Andre Gorz returns to Marx's Grundrisse and the prophecy of early nineteenth century socialists and rediscovers a vision of post-capitalist society founded on the automation of work and the transcending of the exchange economy. He argues that we have reached the precise stage where these utopian insights become a reality. If the socialist movement is to have something to say to a generation whose identity is no longer shaped at work, it must grasp these insights.

Ecology as Politics

Author : André Gorz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ecology as Politics written by André Gorz and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andre Gorz, to my mind the greatest of modern French social thinkers, dares to venture where no one really has before. Fighters for democratic socialism and an ecological society have each recognized the handwriting on the wall: modern society cannot continue on its present path. Neither group, however, has even begun to recognize the other's value, beyond being little more than a tactical means towards achieving their own ends. Gorz, in this exciting and penetrating gem of a book, addresses precisely this question, and offers a connection between the political and the ecological.In an age of crisis the realist becomes visionary and the visionary the rational architect of the future. Andre Gorz is just that. The present decade will be a debacle for progressive change unless our creative efforts move towards linking our concerns with the quality of life to those of economic and political structure. Andre Gorz, as this little volume bears witness, has taken up where Herbert Marcuse left off. 'The only things worthy of each, ' Gorz says, 'are those which are good for all.' This book is worthy indeed of each.

Strategy for Labor

Author : André Gorz
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Strategy for Labor written by André Gorz and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1967 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English translation of the French language political theory monograph entitled strategie ouvriere et neocapitalisme, on the potential of internationalised trade unions for the propagation of socialist ideologies within capitalist economies - includes, as example, the role thereof in EC countries. References.

The Immaterial

Author : André Gorz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Immaterial written by André Gorz and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world where material products have increasingly become vehicles for intangible symbolic and aesthetic messages. A very sizeable marketing and advertising industry produces only images and symbols---the immaterial dimension that `sells' material commodities. The economic boom that accelerated in the 1990s and crashed so spectacularly in 2008 was based largely on immaterial consumption, as capitalism tried to overcome the crisis of the Fordist regime by throwing itself into the new, so-called knowledge economy. --

Andre Gorz

Author : Conrad Lodziak
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745307879
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Andre Gorz written by Conrad Lodziak and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 1997-11-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first accessible introduction to his work in English, Lodziak and Tatman trace the development of Gorz’s political theory.

Reclaiming Work

Author : Andre Gorz
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745621289
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming Work written by Andre Gorz and published by Polity. This book was released on 1999-11-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last twenty-five years, Western societies have been reversing into the future.

The Political Thought of Andre Gorz

Author : Adrian Little
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135103518
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book The Political Thought of Andre Gorz written by Adrian Little and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andre Gorz is one of the most important contemporary socialist thinkers. He has acquired a reputation as an iconoclastic theorist who poses radical questions about the future of the Left. This is the first full length assessment of his work which critically evaluates all of his writings from the 1950s to the 1990s.

Socialism and revolution

Author : André Gorz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Socialism and revolution written by André Gorz and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Traitor

Author : André Gorz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Traitor written by André Gorz and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

This Is an Uprising

Author : Mark Engler
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568585144
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book This Is an Uprising written by Mark Engler and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a craft to uprising -- and this craft can change the world From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to Occupy, the Arab Spring, and #BlackLivesMatter, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change. When mass movements erupt onto our television screens, the media consistently portrays them as being spontaneous and unpredictable. Yet, in this book, Mark and Paul Engler look at the hidden art behind such outbursts of protest, examining core principles that have been used to spark and guide moments of transformative unrest. With incisive insights from contemporary activists, as well as fresh revelations about the work of groundbreaking figures such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Gene Sharp, and Frances Fox Piven, the Englers show how people with few resources and little conventional influence are engineering the upheavals that are reshaping contemporary politics. Nonviolence is usually seen simply as a philosophy or moral code. This Is an Uprising shows how it can instead be deployed as a method of political conflict, disruption, and escalation. It argues that if we are always taken by surprise by dramatic outbreaks of revolt, we pass up the chance to truly understand how social transformation happens.