Love and the Market: How to Recover from the Enlightenment and Survive the Current Crisis

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Rob Faure Walker (University College London)

Love and the Market

How to Recover from the Enlightenment and Survive the Current Crisis

Rob Faure Walker (University College London)

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English

Bristol University Press
01 October 2024

Social & political philosophy; History of ideas; Social issues & processes; Social theory

Love is fundamental to the flourishing of society and nature. However, the competition of the market economy has resulted in a fractured and traumatised 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.

By: Rob Faure Walker (University College London)
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781529243666
ISBN 10: 1529243661
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 01 October 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rob Faure Walker is a Research England Fellow at University College of London. He helps others heal from the alienation of modernity via integratedmindscapes.co.uk.

Reviews for Love and the Market: How to Recover from the Enlightenment and Survive the Current Crisis

"“This book is a bold and important work. It rubs ‘love’ and ‘the market’ together in the actualities of concrete life, revealing the contradictions and the existential crises they entail.” Grant Banfield, University of South Australia ""In Love and the Market, Faure Walker asks why our ""world of transactions"" cannot be one centred around ""Love"". It's a brave person who evokes this four-letter word in a contemporary critical theory text, yet Faure Walker does so incisively and boldly, placing this fundamental human feeling at the centre of political and economic critique. An important book in an era beholden to the politics of hate, reminding us that there is another way."" Mike Watson, Goldsmiths, University of London"