Hartmut Rosa is Professor of Sociology at the University of Jena, Co-director of the Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften in Jena (with Klaus Dörre) and Director of the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt.

Christoph Henning is Junior Fellow for Philosophy at the Max-Weber-Kolleg for advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany.

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List of Contributors

Introduction

Hartmut Rosa & Christoph Henning

I Foundations: Alternative Conceptions of the Good Life

1 The Misadventures of the Good Life between Modernity and Degrowth:

From Happiness to Buen Vivir

Serge Latouche

2 Buen Vivir: A Proposal with Global Potential

Alberto Acosta

3 Available, Accessible, Attainable.

The Mindset of Growth and the Resonance Conception of the Good Life

Hartmut Rosa

4 Resonance and the Romantic era:

A Comment on Rosa's Conception of the Good life

Charles Taylor

II Beyond the Growth Paradigm: Alternative Conceptions of the Economic

5 A Philosophy of Ecological Economics

Manfred-Max Neef

6 Productivity, Property, and Violence: A Critique of liberal justifications of Growth

Christoph Henning

7 Growth regimes and visions of the good life: Why capitalism will not deliver

Dennis Eversberg

8 Political Economic Conditions of a Good Life beyond Growth

Andrew Sayer

III The Good Society: Alternative Conceptions of Social Justice and Wellbeing

9 The Common Good as a Principle of Social Justice

Michael J. Thompson

10 Bread and Roses. 'Good work' from a Union Perspective

Nicole Mayer-Ahuja

11 Income Distribution for a Sane Society

Philippe Van Parijs & Yannik Vanderborght

12 How not to argue against Growth: Happiness, Austerity and Inequality

John O'Neill

IV Subjects beyond Growth: Changing Practices

13 Happiness, the Common Good, and Volunteer Work

Bettina Hollstein

14 Is Love still a Part of the Good Life?

Eva Illouz

15 Empowering Ourselves in the Transformation to a Good Life beyond Growth

Felix Rauschmayer

16 Subjective Limits to Growth and the Limits to a Life-Style Oriented Critique of Growth

Stefanie Graefe

V One World without Growth: Alternative Conceptions of the Political

17 The Good life of Nations: A Global Perspective

Martin Fritz & Max Koch

18 Cultures of Wellbeing in the South: Lessons to learn

Sarah White

[...]ope, Capitalist Landnahme and the Economic-Ecological Double Crisis:

Prospects for a Non-Capitalist Post-Growth Society

Klaus Doerre

20 Toward radical Alternatives to Development

Ashish Kothari

Index