Lean Logic (Buch von 2016)

Verbindungen

• David Fleming verfasste ~
• Shaun Chamberlin verfasste ~

Angaben

David Fleming: Lean Logic. A dictionary for the future and how to survive it. Chelsea Green, 2016.

Bearbeitet von Shaun Chamberlin (Fleming selbst ist bereits 2010 verstorben).

Klappentext

Lean Logic is David Fleming’s masterpiece, the product of more than thirty years’ work and a testament to the creative brilliance of one of Britain’s most important intellectuals. A dictionary unlike any other, it leads readers through Fleming’s stimulating exploration of fields as diverse as culture, history, science, art, logic, ethics, myth, economics, and anthropology, comprised of more than 400 essay-entries covering specific—and often interlinked—topics such as Boredom, Community, Debt, Growth, Harmless Lunatics, Land, Lean Thinking, Nanotechnology, Play, Religion, Spirit, Trust, and Utopia.

The threads running through every entry are Fleming’s deft, original, and often playful analysis of how our present market-based economy is destroying the very foundations—ecological, economic, and cultural—on which it depends, and his core focus: a compelling, grounded vision for a cohesive society that might weather the consequences. Drawing on an incredible wealth of cultural and historical learning, he rekindles a satisfying, culturally-rich context for lives well lived, in an economy not reliant on the impossible promise of eternal economic growth.

Fleming acknowledges, with honesty, the challenges we face. But rather than inducing despair, Lean Logic is rare in its ability to inspire optimism in the creativity and intelligence of humans to nurse our ecology back to health; to rediscover the importance of place and play, of reciprocity and resilience, and of community and culture.