"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 ..."
Reclaiming Work(1st Edition) Beyond the Wage-Based Society by AndreGorz, 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."
"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 ..."
"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 AndreGorz 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 ..."
Ecology As Politics by AndreGorz 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 AndreGorz Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-0-7145-0581-7, ISBN: 0-7145-0581-1
"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 AndreGorz Published 2013 ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-5986-2, ISBN: 0-7456-5986-1
Letter to D A Love Letter by AndreGorz 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 ..."
The Immaterial (Seagull Books - The French List) by AndreGorz, 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 AndreGorz, Julie Rose Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2009 by Polity ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-4677-0, ISBN: 0-7456-4677-8
Letter to D A Love Story by AndreGorz, 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 AndreGorz, 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 AndreGorz, 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."
"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 ..."