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Hi Luke, and all, Fun question ! I am nearly done with : Cooke, B., & Kothari, U. (2001). Participation : The new tyranny? Zed Books. Hope to return soon to : Dunne, J., & MacIntyre, A. (1997). Back to the Rough Ground : Practical Judgment and the Lure of Technique (2nd edition). University of Notre Dame Press. Got curious about : McKeon, R. P. (1952). Freedom and history : The semantics of philosophical controversies and ideological conflicts. The Noonday Press. And a pile of wishfull thinking. For those who wish to dive into the latest Piketty, there is an interesting review of it in last week issue of The Economist. Cheers, PG Ken Friedman a écrit le 21/03/20 à 11:11 : Dear Luke, Here are the six books sitting on my shelf waiting to be read — five that I must read, albeit with interest — and a science fiction trilogy that Ali Ilhan recommended in an earlier list conversation. 1. Cobham, Alex. 2019. The Uncounted. London: Polity Press. 2. McCarraher, Eugene. The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 3. Piketty, Thomas. 2020. Capital and Ideology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 4. Ree, Jonathan. 2019. Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English. London: Allen Lane. 5. Tversky, Barbara. 2019. Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought. New York: Basic Books. 6. Jemisen, N. K. 2018. The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky. New York: Orbit. Here are the Amazon descriptions: Cobham, Alex. 2019. The Uncounted. London: Polity Press. What we count matters - and in a world where policies and decisions are underpinned by numbers, statistics and data, if you’re not counted, you don’t count. Alex Cobham argues that systematic gaps in economic and demographic data not only lead us to understate a wide range of damaging inequalities, but also to actively exacerbate them. He shows how, in statistics ranging from electoral registers to household surveys and census data, people from disadvantaged groups, such as indigenous populations, women, and disabled people, are consistently underrepresented. This further marginalizes them, reducing everything from their political power to their weight in public spending decisions. Meanwhile, corporations and the ultra-rich seek ever greater complexity and opacity in their financial affairs - and when their wealth goes untallied, it means they can avoid regulation and taxation. This brilliantly researched book shows how what we do and don’t count is not a neutral or ‘technical’ question: the numbers that rule our world are skewed by raw politics. Cobham forensically lays bare how these issues strike at the heart of our democracy, entrenching inequality and injustice – and outlines what we can do about it. McCarraher, Eugene. The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Far from displacing religions, as has been supposed, capitalism became one, with money as its deity. Eugene McCarraher reveals how mammon ensnared us and how we can find a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world. If socialists and Wall Street bankers can agree on anything, it is the extreme rationalism of capital. At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the “disenchantment” of the world, stripping material objects and social relations of their mystery and sacredness. Ignoring the motive force of the spirit, capitalism rejects the awe-inspiring divine for the economics of supply and demand. Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether or not it is acknowledged. Capitalist enchantment first flowered in the fields and factories of England and was brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit. Later, the corporation was mystically animated with human personhood, to preside over the Fordist endeavor to build a heavenly city of mechanized production and communion. By the twenty-first century, capitalism has become thoroughly enchanted by the neoliberal deification of “the market.” Informed by cultural history and theology as well as economics, management theory, and marketing, The Enchantments of Mammon looks not to Marx and progressivism but to nineteenth-century Romantics for salvation. The Romantic imagination favors craft, the commons, and sensitivity to natural wonder. It promotes labor that, for the sake of the person, combines reason, creativity, and mutual aid. In this impassioned challenge, McCarraher makes the case that capitalism has hijacked and redirected our intrinsic longing for divinity―and urges us to break its hold on our souls. Piketty, Thomas. 2020. Capital and Ideology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system. Thomas Piketty’s bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system. Our economy, Piketty observes, is not a natural fact. Markets, profits, and capital are all historical constructs that depend on choices. Piketty explores the material and ideological interactions of conflicting social groups that have given us slavery, serfdom, colonialism, communism, and hypercapitalism, shaping the lives of billions. He concludes that the great driver of human progress over the centuries has been the struggle for equality and education and not, as often argued, the assertion of property rights or the pursuit of stability. The new era of extreme inequality that has derailed that progress since the 1980s, he shows, is partly a reaction against communism, but it is also the fruit of ignorance, intellectual specialization, and our drift toward the dead-end politics of identity. Once we understand this, we can begin to envision a more balanced approach to economics and politics. Piketty argues for a new “participatory” socialism, a system founded on an ideology of equality, social property, education, and the sharing of knowledge and power. Capital and Ideology is destined to be one of the indispensable books of our time, a work that will not only help us understand the world, but that will change it. Ree, Jonathan. 2019. Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English. London: Allen Lane. 'We English men have wits' wrote the clergyman Ralph Lever in 1573 and 'we have also framed unto ourselves a language.'Witcraft is a fresh and brilliant history of how philosophy became established in English. It presents a new form of philosophical storytelling and challenges what Jonathan Rée calls the 'condescending smugness' of traditional histories of philosophy. Rée tells the story of philosophy as it was lived and practised embedded in its time and place by men and women from many walks of life engaged with the debates and culture of their age. And by focusing on the rich history of works in English including translations he shows them to be quite as colourful diverse inventive and cosmopolitan as their continental counterparts.Witcraft offers new and compelling intellectual portraits not only of celebrated British and American philosophers such as Hume Emerson Mill and James but also of the remarkable philosophical work of literary authors such as William Hazlitt and George Eliot as well as a carnival of overlooked characters - priests and poets teachers servants and crofters thinking for themselves and reaching their own conclusions about religion politics art and everything else.The book adopts a novel structure examining its subject at fifty-year intervals from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. Researched over decades and illuminated by quotations from extensive archival material it is a book full of stories and personalities as well as ideas and shows philosophy springing from the life around it. Witcraft overturns the established orthodoxies of the history of philosophy and celebrates the diversity vitality and inventiveness of philosophical thought. Tversky, Barbara. 2019. Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought. New York: Basic Books. An eminent psychologist offers a major new theory of human cognition: movement, not language, is the foundation of thought When we try to think about how we think, we can't help but think of words. Indeed, some have called language the stuff of thought. But pictures are remembered far better than words, and describing faces, scenes, and events defies words. Anytime you take a shortcut or play chess or basketball or rearrange your furniture in your mind, you've done something remarkable: abstract thinking without words. In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky shows that spatial cognition isn't just a peripheral aspect of thought, but its very foundation, enabling us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world. Our actions in real space get turned into mental actions on thought, often spouting spontaneously from our bodies as gestures. Spatial thinking underlies creating and using maps, assembling furniture, devising football strategies, designing airports, understanding the flow of people, traffic, water, and ideas. Spatial thinking even underlies the structure and meaning of language: why we say we push ideas forward or tear them apart, why we're feeling up or have grown far apart. Like Thinking, Fast and Slow before it, Mind in Motion gives us a new way to think about how--and where--thinking takes place. Jemisen, N. K. 2018. The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky. New York: Orbit. This complete collection would be a great gift for any occasion and includes The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky. This is the way the world ends for the last time... A season of endings has begun. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy. Yours, Ken Ken Friedman, Ph.D., D.Sc. (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. 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