Full Description
Love is fundamental to the flourishing of society and nature. However, the competition of the market economy has resulted in a fractured and traumatized modern world.
Revisiting philosophical developments and countercultures since the Enlightenment, this book offers a 'loving critique'. It shows how learning to love better is the key to releasing ourselves from the alienating grip of the market.
The utopian template presented draws on archaeology, the witch trials, hippies, Hinduism, Buddhism, quantum mechanics and psychedelics to describe how we can build a more loving society that can survive and flourish through the ecological, ethical, economic and existential crises that we all now face.
Contents
Introduction
1. What Do We Mean When We Speak of Love?
2. Wandering and Wondering
3. Love: An 'Incendiary Subcultural Movement'
4. Modernity: This Is Not as Good as It Gets
5. The Wealth of Colonies
6. A Field in England
7. Imagination: We Are All Danny Baker
8. Stuck: How Our Imagination Was Stifled by the Enlightenment
9. Is Neoliberalism Different?
10. Love and the Market: From Karma to Dharma and to Janana
11. Alternatives: Models for Living
12. We Are Here Now: Utopia and How to Build a Loving Society
Epilogue
