Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Gebundenes Buch

From the Pandemic to Utopia

The Future Begins Now

Beschreibung

The pandemic has brought to the surface human fragilities that contradict the euphoria of the fourth industrial revolution with aggravated social inequality and racial discrimination that characterize our societies. This book argues that the virus reveals the deep problems of our dominant mode of production and consumption.

Autor

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal), and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books have been published in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, Chinese, Danish, Romanian, Polish and Korean. Among his recent books in English are Decolonising the University: The Challenge of Deep Cognitive Justice (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2021); and Toward a New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalization, and Emancipation, Third Edition (Cambridge University Press 2020).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781032355597
• ISBN-10: 103235559X
• Artikelnr.: 67256341

Rezensionen

The COVID-19 pandemic came as a wake-up call for humanity. The modern myths of a full mastering of nature by humans and of permanent growth on a limited planet have fallen apart. As humanity, we need a paradigm shift, new ways of thinking, inhabiting and living in our world with nature of which we are a part, rather than against it. In this incisive and comprehensive book, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, a leading global thinker of our time, provides us with tools to fulfil this collective mission that will define the 21st century.

Geoffrey Pleyers, University of Louvain, Vice-President of the International Sociological Association

Only Boaventura de Sousa Santos could deliver epochal thinking of this scale. As a dialectic of fear and hope, he ties the necessity of utopianism to the possibilities of a world devastated but also made transparent by the pandemic.

Michael Burawoy, University of California-Berkeley