Overview

Love is fundamental to the flourishing of society and nature. However, the competition of the market economy has resulted in a fractured and traumatised 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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9781529243666

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"“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 ""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"

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Rob Faure Walker is a Research England Fellow at University College of London. He helps others heal from the alienation of modernity via integratedmindscapes.co.uk.

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