André Gorz

Major French thinkers shows how the discourse of economics warps thought.

Critique of Economic Reason

Tu vas avoir quatre-vingt-deux ans. Tu as rapetissé de six centimètres, tu ne pèses que quarante-cinq kilos et tu es toujours belle, gracieuse et désirable. Cela fait cinquante-huit ans que nous vivons ensemble et je t'aime plus que jamais. Je porte de nouveau au creux de ma poitrine un vide dévorant que seule comble la chaleur de ton corps contre le mien. André Gorz revient avec cinquante ans de recul sur les années décisives de son histoire. Il restait beaucoup à dire. Car ce n'était pas la sienne seulement.

Histoire d'un amour

Lettre à D

Andre Gorz

A Love Story

Letter to D

Lettera a D. Storia di un amore

bir aşk hikayesi

Son mektup

Geschichte einer Liebe

Brief an D.

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.

Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology

Sosialisme dan Revolusi

رسالة إلى د "حكاية حب "

La más bella carta de amor. "Acabas de cumplir ochenta y dos años. Has encogido seis centímetros, no pesas más de cuarenta y cinco kilos y sigues siendo bella, elegante y deseable". Así comienza la bella carta que el filósofo y periodista André Gorz escribió a su esposa, Dorine, pocos meses antes de que los dos apareciesen muertos en su casa. Gorz fue fundador de Le Nouvel Observateur y compañero de viaje de Sartre. Sin embargo, no es la filosofía el tema de Carta a D.: esta es una conmovedora carta de amor de Gorz a su mujer. Tras sesenta años juntos, Dorine estuvo aquejada de una terrible enfermedad que terminaría con el suicidio pactado de ambos. El amor y la muerte transitan por estas páginas y nos recuerdan que amar es la entrega total. "Una preciosa carta de amor de André Gorz a su esposa, a la que amó durante sesenta años." El País (Joaquín Estefanía) "Pocos libros nos cautivan tan rápidamente y nos roban el corazón de una manera tan incontestable." Time Out Barcelona "Pocos libros conmueven así, y en unas pocas frases dan el tono, el tiempo, la música y la emoción, la calidad de una vida." Le Monde

Una historia de amor

Carta a D.

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.

The Traitor

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 women's 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.

An Essay on Post-industrial Socialism

Farewell to the Working Class

Fredric Jameson

Jean Baudrillard

Theodor W. Adorno

Slavoj Zizek

Max Horkheimer

Alain Badiou

Wilhelm Reich

Simon Critchley

Various

Karl Korsch

Ludwig Feuerbach

Maurice Godelier

Valentin Volosinov

Radical Thinkers

Alev Özgüner

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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.

Ecologica

Utopia (France).

On ne fait pas de bonne politique sans avoir une vision de la société vers laquelle on veut aller et une idée des moyens d'y parvenir. Or, aujourd'hui la politique se résume au mieux à un art des moyens qui oublie sa finalité, au pire à une simple conquête ou conservation du pouvoir. Le capitalisme productiviste et financier commence à révéler ses premiers signes de faiblesse et les symptômes annonciateurs de sa fin commencent à apparaître : crise de la démocratie, déroute du système financier, épuisement des ressources naturelles, dérèglement climatique, montée en puissance des inégalités, replis communautaires et religieux, pollutions de l'eau, de l'air et du sol. Un peu partout dans le monde, hors de la sphère politique traditionnelle, se déclenchent des mouvements qui remettent radicalement en cause l'ordre établi et nous invitent à imaginer une autre manière de penser et de faire de la politique. Le Manifeste Utopia revendique cette utopie qui considère que la réflexion alliée à l'imagination et que les principes de fraternité combinés à la volonté farouche de s'attaquer aux causes du dérèglement social et écologique arriveront à fédérer un mouvement fort, solidaire, capable de proposer une véritable alternative au capitalisme. Dans ce monde nivelé et uniformisé, cette perspective est certainement la plus grande aventure et le plus grand défi que l'on puisse individuellement et collectivement se donner. La construction, non d'alternances, mais d'alternatives susceptibles d'entraîner l'adhésion du plus grand nombre est l'objet principal de ce Manifeste.

Manifeste Utopia

A dieci anni dalla morte di André Gorz (Vosnon, settembre 2007), un volume per ricordare il prezioso lavoro teorico del filosofo fondatore dell’ecologia politica. Tre interviste (1990, 2003, 2005) e un saggio inedito risalente al 2004 attraversano gli assi principali del pensiero di Gorz – questione ambientale, trasformazioni del lavoro, tendenze dello sviluppo capitalistico – e anticipano alcuni temi di stretta attualità, come quello del reddito di base. Un’opera che riscopre con materiali inediti la concezione innovativa di uno degli ultimi maître à penser della politica e del giornalismo francese, che con i suoi libri aperti a teorizzazioni antiautoritarie ed ecologiste ha influenzato in modo significativo l’esperienza della sinistra europea.

Il filo rosso dell’ecologia

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. --

Knowledge, Value and Capital

The Immaterial

The Labour Process and Class-struggle in Modern Capitalism

The Division of Labour

C. E. Messer

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