Recovering a sense of moderation and overcoming the lack of limits
€ 3.00The younger generations are the first to witness the new phenomenon of impassable limits. Climate change, nuclear pollution, new pandemics, the depletion of renewable and non-renewable natural resources, the deleterious effects of synthetic chemical products, social crises and the resounding defeat of the promise of wellbeing, fundamentalist and terrorist threats and identity revolutions are all forms of excess that merge, intertwine and are reinforced. The modern-day lack of limits is a unique and protean monster, above all geographical and anthropological, then economic and, lastly, cultural and political. Even if it were possible to transport the human species to colonise other galaxies before the earth becomes uninhabitable, or to manufacture humanoids that could prosper in a degraded environment, would that be at all rational? In order to build a future for humans it is necessary to overcome the lack of limits, and to recover and share a sense of moderation.
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A French economist and philosopher, Serge Latouche is the main proponent of degrowth theory and a staunch critic of the dominant notions of development and economic rationality and efficacy, maintaining that Western society must be emancipated from universal economicism. An objector against growth, and advocate of localism and the dialogue between diverse cultures, he is an illustrator for the magazine La Revue du MAUSS, president of the cultural association La ligne d’horizon, and professor emeritus of Economics at the University of Paris-Sud (Orsay). His published works include L'Invention de l'économie (2005), La fine del sogno occidentale (2010), Le Temps de la décroissance (with D. Harpagès, 2011), Sortir de la société de consommation (2010), Vers une société d'abondance frugale (2010), De-growth: an electoral stake? (2007), L'âge des limites (2012), Usa e getta (2013), Chroniques d’un objecteur de croissance (2012) and Jacques Ellul contre le totalitarisme technicien (2013). He is also editor of the series “Precursori della decrescita” (“Precursors to Degrowth”) for Italian publishing company Jaca Book.
Serge Latouche & i Dialoghi
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