The Immaterial

Informationen zum Autor Andre Gorz (1923-2007)! also known by his pen name! Michel Bosquet! was an Austrian-French social philosopher. He was the editor of Les Temps modernes and cofounded Le Nouvel Observateur! a leftist weekly. His other books include Socialism and Revolution! Farewell to the Working Class! and Ecologica! the last also published by Seagull Books. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham! England. Klappentext Argues that the economic boom that accelerated in the 1990s and crashed so spectacularly in 2008 was based largely on an immaterial consumption of symbols and ideas! as capitalism tried to overcome the crisis of the formally industrial regime by throwing itself into a new! so-called knowledge economy. Zusammenfassung Argues that the economic boom that accelerated in the 1990s and crashed so spectacularly in 2008 was based largely on an immaterial consumption of symbols and ideas! as capitalism tried to overcome the crisis of the formally industrial regime by throwing itself into a new! so-called knowledge economy.

Product details

• Authors: Andre Gorz, André Gorz
• Assisted by: Chris Turner (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.08.2010, delayed
• EAN: 9781906497613
• ISBN: 978-1-906497-61-3
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: French List; French List; The French List - (Seagull titles CHUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics