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Books by Andre Gorz






Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology(1st Edition)
(Radical Thinkers)
by Andre Gorz, Chris Turner, Martin Chalmers, Otto Kallscheuer, Andr‚ Gorz, Capitalism-Socialism-Ecology
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2013 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-026-1, ISBN: 1-78168-026-4

"Against the background of recent technological developments, Gorz's major new book explores the political agendas facing both right and left in the midst of the transformations of the nature of work and the structure of the workforce.In this major new book, Andre Gorz expands on the political implications of his prescient and influential Paths to Paradise and Critique of Economic Reason. Against the background of technological developme ..."






Critique of Economic Reason(2nd Edition)
(Radical Thinkers)
by Andre Gorz, Andrac Gorz
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2011 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-667-5, ISBN: 1-84467-667-6

"“Gorz’s greatest work, and a crucial book for our time.”—Le Monde. André Gorz's earlier books—from Ecology as Politics to Farewell to the Working Class and Paths to Paradise—have informed and inspired the most radical currents in Green movements in Europe and America over the last two decades. In Critique of Economic Reason, he offers his fullest account to date of the terminal crisis of a system where every activity and aspirat ..."






Reclaiming Work(1st Edition)
Beyond the Wage-Based Society
by Andre Gorz, Andr Eacute Gorz
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1999 by Polity
ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-2128-9, ISBN: 0-7456-2128-7

"Reclaiming Work aeo A major new work by one of the leading social and political thinkers of our time. aeo Offers a fundamental reassessment of the future of work, at a time when the role of work in our lives is being transformed by profound economic and technological changes."






The Traitor(Updated)
by Andre Gorz, Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard Howard
Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 1989 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-0-86091-941-4, ISBN: 0-86091-941-2

"Autobiography, philosophical inquiry, confession - The Traitor is an unclassifiable and unforgettable book from one of France's most inspiring social critics. Written when Andre Gorz was 32 and rising to prominence in the Parisian existentialist milieu, The Traitor starts from an acute personal crisis, 'a state of absolute subjective misery', rooted in social and political alienation. Using psychoanalysis and Marxism, Gorz explores the ..."






Ecologica
by Andrand#233, Andre Gorz, André Gorz
186 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-85742-575-1, ISBN: 0-85742-575-7

"Compiled by Gorz, Ecologica is intended as a final distillation of his work and thought, a guide to the survival of our planet."






Ecology As Politics(1st Edition)
by Andre Gorz
Paperback, 215 Pages, Published 1979 by South End Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-89608-088-1, ISBN: 0-89608-088-9

"Andre Gorz, to my mind the greatest of modern French social thinkers, dares to venture where no one really has before. Fighters for democratic socialism and an ecological society have each recognized the handwriting on the wall: modern society cannot continue on its present path. Neither group, however, has even begun to recognize the other's value, beyond being little more than a tactical means towards achieving their own ends. Gorz, i ..."






Socialism and Revolution
by Andre Gorz, N. Denny, Norman Denny
Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 1975 by Allen Lane
ISBN-13: 978-0-7139-0315-7, ISBN: 0-7139-0315-5






Ecology As Politics
by Andre Gorz
Hardcover, 215 Pages, Published 1979 by South End Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-89608-089-8, ISBN: 0-89608-089-7

"Andre Gorz, as this little volume bears witness, has taken up where Herbert Marcuse left off. 'The only things worthy of each, ' Gorz says, 'are those which are good for all.' This book is worthy indeed of each."






The Traitor
by Andre Gorz
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-7145-0581-7, ISBN: 0-7145-0581-1






Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology
by Andre Gorz
160 Pages, Published 2014 by Verso Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-038-4, ISBN: 1-78168-038-8

"Ulrich Beck, “Die Griinen in der Weltrisikogesellschaft”, in Ralf Fucks (ed.), Sind die Grilnen noch zu retten? Reinbek 1991, p. 191. See also U. Beck, Politik in der Risikogesellschaft, Frankfurt-am-Main 1991. 27. Within the West German Left, the renewed relevance of the democratic question (too long suppressed) has been pointed up again since the collapse of the communist states by Ulrich Rodel, Giinter Frankenberg and Helmut Dub ..."






Letter to D
A Love Letter
by Andre Gorz
Published 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-5986-2, ISBN: 0-7456-5986-1






Letter to D
A Love Letter
by Andre Gorz
144 Pages, Published 2013 by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-8090-3, ISBN: 0-7456-8090-9

"I asked myself these questions withdismay on rereadingthe words I wrote. What motivates me, aboveall,is an obsessive needto elevate myself above whatI experience, feel and think, in order to theorise it,to intellectualise it, to be nothing but ..."






Ecologica
by Andre Gorz, Chris Turner, Andrac Gorz
Hardcover, 186 Pages, Published 2010 by Seagull Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-41-5, ISBN: 1-906497-41-9

" Writing in 2007, French social philosopher André Gorz (1923–2007) was remarkably prophetic, foretelling the international economic meltdown of 2008: “The real economy is becoming an appendage of the speculative bubbles sustained by the finance industry—until that inevitable point when the bubbles burst, leading to serial bank crashes and threatening the global system of credit with collapse and the real economy with a severe, p ..."






The Immaterial
(Seagull Books - The French List)
by Andre Gorz, Chris Turner
Hardcover, 209 Pages, Published 2010 by Seagull Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-61-3, ISBN: 1-906497-61-3

"In The Immaterial, French social philosopher André Gorz (1923–2007) argues, in his finely-tuned and polemical style, 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.In this, the last full-lengt ..."






Letter to D(1st Edition)
A Love Letter
by Andre Gorz, Julie Rose
Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2009 by Polity
ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-4677-0, ISBN: 0-7456-4677-8

"‘You’re 82 years old. You’ve shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet you’re still beautiful, graceful and desirable’ – so begins André Gorz’s ‘open love letter’ to the woman he has lived with for 58 years and who lies dying next to him. As one of France’s leading post-war philosophers, André Gorz wrote many influential books, but nothing he wrote will be read as widely or remembered as long as this simp ..."






Letter to D
A Love Story
by Andre Gorz, Julie Rose
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2008 by Harpercollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-7322-8774-0, ISBN: 0-7322-8774-X

"The story of the ultimate love letter from a man to the woman he loves more than life itself, after he discovers she is dying. he documents their life together, love at first sight, almost 60 years before. In the final chapter of this love affair, were the bodies of the author Andre Gorz and his wife. They could not have lived without each other."






Farewell to the Working Class(1st Edition)
An Essay on Post-Industrial Socialism (Pluto Classics)
by Andre Gorz, Andrac Gorz
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2001 by Pluto Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-86104-364-4, ISBN: 0-86104-364-2

"'Vintage Gorz - stimulating in its insight and rich in its documentation.' Guardian 'As unemployment rises, the struggle, Gorz insists, is not for the 'Right to Work' but for an income regardless of work, for the sharing of the reduced amount of necessary social labour, above all for the primacy of autonomous, self-determined activity. And it is a struggle, he claims, that is already taking place.' New Statesman André Gorz argues tha ..."






Reclaiming Work(1st Edition)
Beyond the Wage-Based Society
by Andre Gorz, Translator-Chris Turner
Hardcover, 185 Pages, Published 1999 by Polity
ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-2127-2, ISBN: 0-7456-2127-9

"In this major new book, André Gorz argues that the societies created by Fordism have been falling apart and have given way to "non-societies", in which a tiny dominant stratum has grabbed most of the surplus wealth."






Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology
by Andre Gorz
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1994 by Verso Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-86091-477-8, ISBN: 0-86091-477-1






Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology(1st Edition)
by Andre Gorz, Chris Turner, Andrac Gorz
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1994 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-0-86091-647-5, ISBN: 0-86091-647-2

"In this major new book, Andre Gorz expands on the political implications of his prescient and influential Paths to Paradise and Critique of Economic Reason. Against the background of technological developments which have transformed the nature of work and the structure of the workforce, Gorz explores the new political agendas facing both left and right. Each is in disarray: the right, torn between the demands of capital and the 'traditi ..."



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