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Eloge du suffisant

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Pour André Gorz, défense du « monde vécu » et défense du « milieu naturel » sont les deux faces d’une même résistance : la question écologique se pose dans le cadre plus vaste de la domination des « systèmes » (marché capitaliste et adminis­tration étatique) sur les hommes au quotidien. Tandis que le capital, à l’accroissement illimité, menace la nature qu’il pille autant que la société qu’il manipule, l’autogestion qu’il faut souhaiter est une autolimitation, selon le principe de suffisance : une gestion raisonnable et un lissage des richesses atténuent les tensions sociales et préservent les ressources naturelles.
Le choix de la décroissance est alors un arbitrage démocratique entre efforts consentis et besoins reconnus, qui assure à la fois moins de charge de travail (redistribué), plus d’autonomie (espaces coopératifs) et de sécurité (revenu garanti), et qui laisse leur temps aux activités qui valent pour elles-mêmes.

Édition, introduction et commentaires par Christophe Gilliand.

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2019

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André Gorz

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André Gorz , pen name of Gérard Horst, born Gerhard Hirsch, also known by his pen name Michel Bosquet, was an Austrian and French social philosopher. Also a journalist, he co-founded Le Nouvel Observateur weekly in 1964. A supporter of Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist version of Marxism after World War Two, in the aftermath of the May '68 student riots, he became more concerned with political ecology.
In the 1960s and 1970s, he was a main theorist in the New Left movement. His central theme was wage labour issues such as liberation from work, just distribution of work, social alienation, and Guaranteed basic income

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May 4, 2021
A short but interesting essay by André Gorz (with a pre- and post-face by Christophe Gilliand, doctor in Environmental Philosophy).

In it, Gorz, a communist philosopher and one of the first to think political ecology in France, develops his philosophical thought about living in harmony with nature in opposition to trying to control and domesticate it. A good description of the book's short content can be read here (in French): http://www.fondationecolo.org/blog/CR...
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February 24, 2025
je suis pas sure d’avoir tout compris
je suis pas sure d’avoir compris quelque chose à vrai dire
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