Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
暫譯: 放慢腳步：去增長宣言
Saito, Kohei, Bergstrom, Brian
- 出版商: Astra House
- 出版日期: 2024-01-09
- 售價: $1,180
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,121
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 288
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 1662602367
- ISBN-13: 9781662602368
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商品描述
"Accessible and convincing."
--Sally Rooney "[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary proposal."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Saito's clarity of thought, plethora of evidence, and conversational, gentle, yet urgent tone . . . are sure to win over open-minded readers who understand the dire nature of our global situation . . . A cogently structured anti-capitalist approach to the climate crisis."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs and are nevertheless unable to make ends meet, with no future prospects, while the planet is burning? In his international bestseller, Kohei Saito argues that while unfettered capitalism is often blamed for inequality and climate change, subsequent calls for "sustainable growth" and a "Green New Deal" are a dangerous compromise. Capitalism creates artificial scarcity by pursuing profit based on the value of products rather than their usefulness and by putting perpetual growth above all else. It is therefore impossible to reverse climate change in a capitalist society--more: the system that caused the problem in the first place cannot be an integral part of the solution. Instead, Saito advocates for degrowth and deceleration, which he conceives as the slowing of economic activity through the democratic reform of labor and production. In practical terms, he argues for:
By returning to a system of social ownership, he argues, we can restore abundance and focus on those activities that are essential for human life, effectively reversing climate change and saving the planet.
--Sally Rooney "[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary proposal."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Saito's clarity of thought, plethora of evidence, and conversational, gentle, yet urgent tone . . . are sure to win over open-minded readers who understand the dire nature of our global situation . . . A cogently structured anti-capitalist approach to the climate crisis."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs and are nevertheless unable to make ends meet, with no future prospects, while the planet is burning? In his international bestseller, Kohei Saito argues that while unfettered capitalism is often blamed for inequality and climate change, subsequent calls for "sustainable growth" and a "Green New Deal" are a dangerous compromise. Capitalism creates artificial scarcity by pursuing profit based on the value of products rather than their usefulness and by putting perpetual growth above all else. It is therefore impossible to reverse climate change in a capitalist society--more: the system that caused the problem in the first place cannot be an integral part of the solution. Instead, Saito advocates for degrowth and deceleration, which he conceives as the slowing of economic activity through the democratic reform of labor and production. In practical terms, he argues for:
- the end of mass production and mass consumption
- decarbonization through shorter working hours
- the prioritization of essential labor over corporate profits
By returning to a system of social ownership, he argues, we can restore abundance and focus on those activities that are essential for human life, effectively reversing climate change and saving the planet.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
「可接觸且令人信服。」
--莎莉·魯尼
--出版者週刊（星級評論）'斉藤的思維清晰、證據豐富，語氣對話式、溫和卻又緊迫……必定能贏得那些理解我們全球情況嚴峻性的開放思想讀者的青睞……這是一種結構合理的反資本主義應對氣候危機的方法。'
--柯克斯評論（星級評論） 為什麼在我們富裕的社會中，仍有如此多人生活在貧困中，無法獲得醫療保健，必須同時工作多份工作卻仍然無法維持生計，未來毫無前景，而地球卻在燃燒？在他的國際暢銷書中，斉藤浩平主張，雖然無限制的資本主義常常被指責為不平等和氣候變化的根源，但隨之而來的「可持續增長」和「綠色新政」的呼籲則是一種危險的妥協。資本主義通過追求基於產品價值而非其實用性的利潤，並將持續增長置於一切之上，創造了人為的稀缺性。因此，在資本主義社會中逆轉氣候變化是不可能的——更進一步，造成問題的系統不可能成為解決方案的核心部分。相反，斉藤主張去增長和減速，他將其視為通過勞動和生產的民主改革來減緩經濟活動。在實際層面上，他主張：
- 結束大規模生產和大規模消費
- 通過縮短工作時間實現脫碳
- 將基本勞動置於企業利潤之上
他主張，通過回歸社會所有制的系統，我們可以恢復豐富，並專注於那些對人類生活至關重要的活動，有效地逆轉氣候變化並拯救地球。
作者簡介
Kohei Saito is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tokyo. He received his PhD in philosophy from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in 2016. He was awarded the 2018 Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize, the most prestigious academic award for Marxian studies, making Saito its youngest recipient. In 2020 the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science awarded him the highly prestigious JSPS prize, awarded to the top 25 scholars in the entire country under the age of 45. In 2021, Slow Down received the "Best Asian Books of the Year" prize from the Asia Book Awards.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
斉藤浩平（Kohei Saito）是東京大學的哲學副教授。他於2016年在德國洪堡大學獲得哲學博士學位。他於2018年獲得以色列·德意志紀念獎（Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize），這是馬克思主義研究領域中最具聲望的學術獎項，使斉藤成為該獎項最年輕的得主。2020年，日本學術振興會（Japan Society for the Promotion of Science）授予他極具聲望的JSPS獎，該獎項頒發給全國45歲以下的前25名學者。2021年，Slow Down 獲得亞洲圖書獎（Asia Book Awards）的「年度最佳亞洲書籍」獎。
