Love and the Market
How to Recover from the Enlightenment and Survive the Current Crisis
By Rob Faure Walker
Published
Sep 17, 2024Page count
190 pagesISBN
978-1529243673Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Sep 17, 2024Page count
190 pagesISBN
978-1529243666Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Sep 17, 2024Page count
190 pagesISBN
978-1529243680Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Sep 17, 2024Page count
190 pagesISBN
978-1529243680Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Love and the Market
On the blog:
The modern world is at odds with Love
In the media:
'Love and the Market' on the 'All We Need is Love?' podcast
Love is fundamental to the flourishing of society and nature. However, the competition of the market economy has resulted in a fractured and traumatized modern world.
Revisiting philosophical developments and countercultures since the Enlightenment, this book offers a ‘loving critique’. It shows how learning to love better is the key to releasing ourselves from the alienating grip of the market.
The utopian template presented draws on archaeology, the witch trials, hippies, Hinduism, Buddhism, quantum mechanics and psychedelics to describe how we can build a more loving society that can survive and flourish through the ecological, ethical, economic and existential crises that we all now face.
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“In Love and the Market, Faure Walker asks why our ‘world of transactions’ cannot be one centred around 'Love'. It's a brave person who evokes this four-letter word in a contemporary critical theory text, yet Faure Walker does so incisively and boldly, placing this fundamental human feeling at the centre of political and economic critique. An important book in an era beholden to the politics of hate, reminding us that there is another way.” Mike Watson, Goldsmiths, University of London
“How great to read a book that offers a way out of the social, economic and environmental chaos that now dominates modern life. It is based on a profound understanding of love and what it is to be human. The pages shine with hope.” Francis Pryor, Archaeologist
“This book is a bold and important work. It rubs ‘love’ and ‘the market’ together in the actualities of concrete life, revealing the contradictions and the existential crises they entail.” Grant Banfield, University of South Australia
Rob Faure Walker is Research England Fellow at University College London. He helps others heal from the alienation of modernity via integratedmindscapes.co.uk.
Introduction
1. What Do We Mean When We Speak of Love?
2. Wandering and Wondering
3. Love: An ‘Incendiary Subcultural Movement’
4. Modernity: This Is Not as Good as It Gets
5. The Wealth of Colonies
6. A Field in England
7. Imagination: We Are All Danny Baker
8. Stuck: How Our Imagination Was Stifled by the Enlightenment
9. Is Neoliberalism Different?
10. Love and the Market: From Karma to Dharma and to Janana
11. Alternatives: Models for Living
12. We Are Here Now: Utopia and How to Build a Loving Society
Epilogue
