List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction
Hartmut Rosa & Christoph Henning
I Foundations: Alternative Conceptions of the Good Life
1 The Misadventures of the Good Life between Modernity and Degrowth:
From Happiness to Buen Vivir
Serge Latouche
2 Buen Vivir: A Proposal with Global Potential
Alberto Acosta
3 Available, Accessible, Attainable.
The Mindset of Growth and the Resonance Conception of the Good Life
Hartmut Rosa
4 Resonance and the Romantic era:
A Comment on Rosa’s Conception of the Good life
Charles Taylor
II Beyond the Growth Paradigm: Alternative Conceptions of the Economic
5 A Philosophy of Ecological Economics
Manfred-Max Neef
6 Productivity, Property, and Violence: A Critique of liberal justifications of Growth
Christoph Henning
7 Growth regimes and visions of the good life: Why capitalism will not deliver
Dennis Eversberg
8 Political Economic Conditions of a Good Life beyond Growth
Andrew Sayer
III The Good Society: Alternative Conceptions of Social Justice and Wellbeing
9 The Common Good as a Principle of Social Justice
Michael J. Thompson
10 Bread and Roses. ‘Good work’ from a Union Perspective
Nicole Mayer-Ahuja
11 Income Distribution for a Sane Society
Philippe Van Parijs & Yannik Vanderborght
12 How not to argue against Growth: Happiness, Austerity and Inequality
John O'Neill
IV Subjects beyond Growth: Changing Practices
13 Happiness, the Common Good, and Volunteer Work
Bettina Hollstein
14 Is Love still a Part of the Good Life?
Eva Illouz
15 Empowering Ourselves in the Transformation to a Good Life beyond Growth
Felix Rauschmayer
16 Subjective Limits to Growth and the Limits to a Life-Style Oriented Critique of Growth
Stefanie Graefe
V One World without Growth: Alternative Conceptions of the Political
17 The Good life of Nations: A Global Perspective
Martin Fritz & Max Koch
18 Cultures of Wellbeing in the South: Lessons to learn
Sarah White
19 Europe, Capitalist Landnahme and the Economic-Ecological Double Crisis:
Prospects for a Non-Capitalist Post-Growth Society
Klaus Doerre
20 Toward radical Alternatives to Development
Ashish Kothari
Index
