In this personal reflection of remarkable clarity and intelligence, the author shows above all how the decision between obedience and disobedience ultimately remains a personal matter.

Le Monde

The philosopher Frédéric Gros analyses the wellsprings of our passivity. Citizens submit out of fear, social conformity, or pleasure, but also to escape their own responsibility. Yet disobedience is not incompatible with democracy.

Libération

This specialist in political philosophy dissects the mechanisms of obedience.

Télérama

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Inspiring!

Elle

A masterly political and ethical reflection. This essay examines the inner condition of the political and social subject, asking why it is hard to disobey even when the world imposes desperate conditions of life.

Les Inrockuptibles

A call to resist conformity and tyranny.

- Alain Finkielkraut, Philosophie magazine

Emotive and pithy ... a deep insight into how we can disobey and bring about a better world rather than passively accept the reality we're living in.

Philosophy Now

The world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent act for everyone. In this provocative essay, Frédéric Gros explores the roots of political obedience, social conformity, economic subjection, respect for authorities, constitutional consensus. Examining the various styles of obedience provides tools to study, invent and induce new forms of civic disobedience and lyrical protest. Nothing can be taken for granted: neither supposed certainties nor social conventions, economic injustice or moral conviction. Thinking philosophically requires us to never accept truths and generalities that seem obvious-it restores a sense of political responsibility. At a time when the decisions of experts are presented as the result of icy statistics and anonymous calculations, disobeying becomes an assertion of humanity. To philosophise is to disobey. This book is a call for critical democracy and ethical resistance.
Les mer
Following his best-selling A Philosophy of Walking Gros explores the philosophy of disobedience.
In this personal reflection of remarkable clarity and intelligence, the author shows above all how the decision between obedience and disobedience ultimately remains a personal matter.
Following his best-selling A Philosophy of Walking Gros explores the philosophy of disobedience.
Author of the best-selling A Philosohy of Walking which has sold over 25,000 copies.

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ISBN
9781788736329
Publisert
2021-05-04
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
189 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

Forfatter
Oversetter

Biographical note

Frédéric Gros is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris XII and the Institute of Political Studies, Paris. He was the Editor of the last lectures of Michel Foucault at the Collège de France. His previous books include A Philosophy of Walking and The Security Principle.