The Good Life Beyond Growth

New Perspectives

Edited by

Hartmut Rosa and

Christoph Henning

Ö Routledge
Taylor &Francis Group
LONDON AND NEW YORK
Contents

List offtgures ix
List of tables xi
Contributors xiii

Good life beyond growth: an introduction 1

HARTMUT ROSA & CHRISTOPH HENNING

PARTI
Foundations: alternative conceptions ofthe good life 15

1 The misadventures of the good life between modernity

and degrowth: from happiness to GDPto Buen Vivir 17
SERGE LATOUCHE

2 Buen Vivir: a proposal with global potential 29

ALBERTO ACOSTA

3 Available, accessible, attainable: the mindset of growth

and the resonance conception of the good life 39
HARTMUT ROSA

4 Resonance and the romantic era: a comment on Rosa's

conception of the good life 55
CHARLES TAYLOR

PART II
Beyond the growth paradigm: alternative conceptions
of the economic 71

5 A philosophy of ecological economics 73

MANFRED A. MAX-NEEF
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6 Productivity, property, and violence: a critique of
liberal justifications of growth 83
CHRISTOPH HENNING

7 Growth regimes and visions of the good life: why capitalism

will not deliver 95
DENNIS EVERSBERG

8 Political economic conditions of a good life beyond growth 107

ANDREW SAYER

PART III
The good society: alternative conceptions of social
justice and well-being 117

9 The common good as a principle of social justice 119

MICHAEL J. THOMPSON

10 Bread and Roses: "good work" from a union perspective 131

NICOLE MAYER-AHUJA

11 How not to argue against growth: happiness, austerity

and inequality 141
JOHN O'NEILL

12 Basic income and the freedom to lead a good life 153

PHILIPPE VAN PARIJS & YANNICK VANDERBORGHT

PART IV
Subjects beyond growth: changing practices 163

13 Happiness, the common good, and volunteer work 165

BETTINA HOLLSTEIN

14 Is love still a part of the good life? 177

EVA ILLOUZ

15 Empowering ourselves in the transformation to a

good life beyond growth 189
FELIX RAUSCHMAYER
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16 Subjective limits to growth and the limits to a lifestyle
oriented critique of growth 201
STEFANIE GRAEFE

PART V
One world without growth: alternative conceptions
of the political 213

17 The 'good life' of nations: a global perspective 215

MARTIN FRITZ & MAX KOCH

18 Economic«, relationality and the good life in Chiawa, Zambia 229

SARAH C. WHITE

19 Europe, capitalist Landnahme and the economic-ecological

double crisis: prospects for a non-capitalist, post-growth society1 241
KLAUS DÖRRE

20 Towards radical alternatives to development 251

ASHISH KOTHARI

Index 263