Best for: Philosophy students and lecturers In a nutshell: Soper’s project is exploring how people can rethink their idea of the good life to fit in with the reality of our current consumer culture’s negative impact on our own lives and the environment. Worth quoting: “However critical they may be of capitalism in other respects, socialists are still much too ready to subscribe to conventional views on the ‘good life’ and what constitutes a ‘high’ standard of living.” Why I chose it: A podcast I […]
The Non-Academic Version of this Book Could Be Great
Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism by Kate Soper