Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth

Author:   Kohei Saito
Publisher:   Orion Publishing Co
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9781399612975


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   18 January 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Kohei Saito
Publisher:   Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:   Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.501kg
ISBN:  

9781399612975


ISBN 10:   1399612972
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   18 January 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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SLOW DOWN has an almost magic ability to formulate complex thoughts in clear language, as well as to combine strict conceptual thinking with passionate personal engagement. What this means is that Saito's book is not just for anyone interested in ecology or in the problems of today's global capitalism, it is simply indispensable for those of us who want to SURVIVE in short, to all of us -- Slavoj Žižek, author of VIOLENCE and THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY Kohei Saito is one of the most important scholars in the world. In SLOW DOWN, he delivers a Karl Marx for the climate crisis and a vision of communism for the 21st century. No work could be more vital today -- Malcolm Harris, bestselling author of PALO ALTO A masterpiece -- Ryuichi Sakamoto, composer and music pioneer In a stagnant world where it is difficult to formulate visions for the future, the liberation of imagination offered by Capital in the Anthropocene . . . is a much-needed antidote * Asia Book Awards 2021 *


SLOW DOWN has an almost magic ability to formulate complex thoughts in clear language, as well as to combine strict conceptual thinking with passionate personal engagement. What this means is that Saito's book is not just for anyone interested in ecology or in the problems of today's global capitalism, it is simply indispensable for those of us who want to SURVIVE in short, to all of us -- Slavoj Žižek, author of VIOLENCE and THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY Kohei Saito is one of the most important scholars in the world. In SLOW DOWN, he delivers a Karl Marx for the climate crisis and a vision of communism for the 21st century. No work could be more vital today -- Malcolm Harris, bestselling author of PALO ALTO A masterpiece -- Ryuichi Sakamoto, composer and music pioneer In a stagnant world where it is difficult to formulate visions for the future, the liberation of imagination offered by Capital in the Anthropocene . . . is a much-needed antidote * Asia Book Awards 2021 * Saito has tapped into what he describes as a growing disillusionment in Japan with capitalism's ability to solve the problems people see around them, whether caring for the country's growing older population, stemming rising inequality or mitigating climate change . . . His vision for the future is one in which people - less consumed by their endless pursuit of growth for growth's sake - have the leisure time to spend a workday pursuing new interests * New York Times *


SLOW DOWN has an almost magic ability to formulate complex thoughts in clear language, as well as to combine strict conceptual thinking with passionate personal engagement. What this means is that Saito's book is not just for anyone interested in ecology or in the problems of today's global capitalism, it is simply indispensable for those of us who want to SURVIVE in short, to all of us -- Slavoj Žižek, author * The Sublime Object of Ideology * Kohei Saito is one of the most important scholars in the world. In SLOW DOWN, he delivers a Karl Marx for the climate crisis and a vision of communism for the 21st century. No work could be more vital today -- Malcolm Harris, author * Palo Alto * Saito unites Marxism with ecology and lights a path out of our present crisis. A powerful book from one of the most compelling young thinkers of our time -- Jason Hickel, author * Less Is More * This necessary and energizing 21st Century manifesto is a truth mirror inviting us to see ourselves and our place in the metastatic growth engine that is our current economic system. Saito is a well-read soothsayer -- one who loves this world, who has done his homework, and who is eager to share a viable way forward -- John Vaillant, author * Fire Weather * A masterpiece -- Ryuichi Sakamoto, composer and music pioneer Saito's clarity of thought, plethora of evidence, and conversational, gentle, yet urgent tone-even when describing the most alarming aspects of the climate crisis-are sure to win over open-minded readers who understand the dire nature of our global situation and that 'green capitalism is a myth.' A cogently structured anti-capitalist approach to the climate crisis * Kirkus (starred review) * In a stagnant world where it is difficult to formulate visions for the future, the liberation of imagination offered by Capital in the Anthropocene . . . is a much-needed antidote * Asia Book Awards 2021 * Saito has tapped into what he describes as a growing disillusionment in Japan with capitalism's ability to solve the problems people see around them, whether caring for the country's growing older population, stemming rising inequality or mitigating climate change . . . His vision for the future is one in which people - less consumed by their endless pursuit of growth for growth's sake - have the leisure time to spend a workday pursuing new interests * New York Times *


A masterpiece -- Ryuichi Sakamoto, composer and music pioneer In a stagnant world where it is difficult to formulate visions for the future, the liberation of imagination offered by Capital in the Anthropocene . . . is a much-needed antidote * Asia Book Awards 2021 *


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Kohei Saito is an associate professor at the University of Tokyo and the youngest ever winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize for scholarship in the Marxist tradition. He is an editor on MEGA, an ongoing project to publish critical editions of the complete writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Slow Down was a huge bestseller on publication and has been credited for inspiring a resurgence of interest in climate economics in Japan.

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