Times of Crisis: What the Financial Crisis Revealed and How to Reinvent Our Lives and Future

by Michel Serres

Book Overview

For Michel Serres, economic crises are earthquakes caused by societal tectonic plates. The current crisis erupted because of the widening discrepancy between major social changes and institutions that have remained the same since WWII.

Serres, one of the first to bring nature into the political, writes, "To destroy, kill, exploit is worthless. In the long run, it means destroying ourselves." At a time when the world population has grown...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501307894
• ISBN13: 9781501307898
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.8" x 7.6"