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Political Friendship and Degrowth - An Ethical Grounding of an Economy of Human Flourishing (Hardcover)
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Political Friendship and Degrowth - An Ethical Grounding of an Economy of Human Flourishing (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
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Developing a contemporary account of political friendship and
synthesizing it with the radical movement of degrowth, this book
provides the ethical grounding and the rationale of an alternative
economy which serves human flourishing. The Aristotelian political
friendship embodies active concern for the others' well-being that
contemporary societies lack; the crucial problems of ecological
destruction and global poverty illustrate this friendship deficit.
Arguing for the need for re-embracing a friendly civic ethos and
re-aligning the economy with moral objectives, the author updates
the Aristotelian idea and identifies it with democratic-autonomous
political-economic praxis that ensures citizens'
self-actualization. Degrowth movement questioning economic growth
and productivism, and privileging a simpler life with less material
goods, favours political friendship precisely because it nourishes
its unconscious substratum namely human instinctual sociality. The
call for genuine democratic political praxis that political
friendship implies could enable the degrowth movement to retain its
radical character and accomplish the shift to an economy which
serves life. The book is worthwhile studying by students and
researchers across social sciences and especially by scholars in
the fields of sociology, philosophy, and politics, but also a
broader readership sensitive to the issues of social and
environmental sustainability will find this work extremely
interesting.
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