Contents

PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE EDITION

Preamble

A Change in Civilization Is Taking Place before Your Eyes

The Old Nightmares Still Disturb Our Dreams of Renewal

The Earthquake of the French Revolution

The False Promise of Free Trade

From Productivism to Consumerism

The Illusion of Consumable Well-Being

Consumerism Has Reduced All Values to Market Value

The Revolution of Everyday Life

Finance Capital: Money as Mains Sewerage

For and Against Culture

After Master Thinkers, Unthinking Slaves

Populist Regression, the Culture of Nothing, and the Dumbing Down of the Masses

Consciousness and Emotion

The Intellectual Bloodstain

Ideology: An Illness of Being

The Man of Ressentiment: The Revenge of the Body Frustrated in Its Desires

The Last Struggle: An Endemic War between the Party of Death and Commitment to Life

A New Con Game: Ecological Neocapitalism

What Is Most Lacking Is Awareness of the Self and the World

Bidding Farewell to an Inhuman Past

Disentangling the Thread of Life from the Past That Has Hidden It

Love of Life Needs No Ethic

Transcendence of Survival Implies the Birth of a New Kind of Life

You Are the Children of an Endless Spring

Fighting for Life Is Not Fighting against Death

For a Festive Society

AFTERWORD by John Holloway

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHORS