Author: André Barata e José Manuel Santos (Orgs.)

Publisher: Praxis (Colecção/Collection: Ta Pragmata) Year: 2021

ISBN: 978-989-654-786-8

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Description: Contemporary societies are regulated by a complex system, which tends to be exhaustive, supported by growing social and technical interdependence. This system is composed of subsystems: global economic production, liberal political institutions and a social organization based on labour. As a whole, these three dimensions – political, economical, social – tend to compress contemporary life forms into a single way of life, primarily structured by systemic functionality. Although it admits variations of degree (or even, to some extent, qualitative differences), the functional codes (of systems) guide actions daily and impose severe limitations on lifestyles, which are particularly noticeable when the struggle for survival, both economically and socially, mobilizes all of one’s time and energy. The means obliterate the ends, functioning obliterates meaning, survival obliterates the proper human “life”. At the political level, liberal thought masks the “malaise of modern civilization” resulting from these limitations by evacuating the question on forms of life to the private sphere, concurrently with the insistence on an abstract political ethic of the “just”, ultimately determining the form and functioning of the institutions, which overrides any and all ethics of “good”. With this framework of questions, the present volume is composed of 10 chapters that respond to the challenge of thinking about the notion of ways of life and its transformations in our contemporary time.

Indice: Introduction, André Barata and José Manuel Santos p. 11 1 — Communauté, individu, système: la question de la forme de vie dans la société des individus et des systèmes, José Manuel Santos p. 27 2 — Richesse, préférences et formes de vie: les promesses non tenues de l’économie, Claire Pignol p. 57 3 — Conventions de régulation et formes de vie présumées, Emmanuel Picavet p. 87 4 — New forms of citizenship and exclusion, Maria João Cabrita p. 109 5 — Any hope for plurality? On the ideological function of capitalism and the possibility of transformation, Gonçalo Marcelo p. 131 6 — Time, truth and ethics: transformations and impacts on the ethical and epistemic condition of contemporary subjects, Ana Leonor Santos and André Barata p. 157 7 — La déclinaison opéraïste de la problématique des «formes de vie» Irene Viparelli, p. 179 8 — Wittgenstein, justice, and liberalism, Robert Vinten p. 205 9 — The Eudaimonia of the book in question: archaeology of contemporary forms of reading, Daniel Melo p. 235 10 — L’aventure comme ouverture affective de l’à-venir: une approche phénoménologique, Irene Borges-Duarte p. 275