André Gorz Livres

Tu vas avoir quatre-vingt-deux ans. Tu as rapetissé de six centimètres, tu ne pèses que quarante-cinq kilos et tu es toujours belle, gracieuse et désirable. Cela fait cinquante-huit ans que nous vivons ensemble et je t'aime plus que jamais. Je porte de nouveau au creux de ma poitrine un vide dévorant que seule comble la chaleur de ton corps contre le mien. André Gorz revient avec cinquante ans de recul sur les années décisives de son histoire. Il restait beaucoup à dire. Car ce n'était pas la sienne seulement.

Tu vas avoir quatre-vingt-deux ans. Tu as rapetissé de six centimètres, tu ne pèses que quarante-cinq kilos et tu es toujours belle, gracieuse et désirable. Cela fait cinquante-huit ans que nous vivons ensemble et je t'aime plus que jamais. Je porte de nouveau au creux de ma poitrine un vide dévorant que seule comble la chaleur de ton corps contre le mien. André Gorz revient avec cinquante ans de recul sur les années décisives de son histoire. Il restait beaucoup à dire. Car ce n'était pas la sienne seulement.

(Source : site de l'éditeur) « Qu’est-ce maintenant qu’une perspective de gauche ? Que signifie être socialiste ? Comment faut-il concevoir la place future du travail-emploi dans la vie des individus et de la société ? Une société peut-elle se perpétuer sans orientation, ni but, ni espoir ? »

Dans ce récit, André Gorz revient à plusieurs reprises sur ses années d'étude (de chimie) passées à Lausanne, (de 1939 à 1945) et durant lesquelles il participe aux spectacles créés par la jeune troupe des Faux Nez (p. 28).

"La bagnole a rendu la grande ville inhabitable. Elle l'a rendue puante, bruyante, asphyxiante, poussiéreuse, engorgée au point que les gens n'ont plus envie de sortir le soir. Alors, puisque les bagnoles ont tué la ville, il faut davantage de bagnoles encore plus rapides pour fuir sur des autoroutes vers des banlieues encore plus lointaines. Impeccable circularité : donnez- nous plus de bagnoles pour fuir les ravages que causent les bagnoles."

Writing in 2007, French social philosopher André Gorz was remarkably prophetic, foretelling the international economic meltdown of 2008: 'The real economy is becoming an appendage of the speculative bubbles sustained by the finance industry - until that inevitable point when the bubbles burst, leading to serial bank crashes and threatening the global system of credit with collapse and the real economy with a severe, prolonged depression'. This prescient article is collected in Ecologica alongside many of Gorz's final writings and interviews, which together offer practical and often path-breaking set of solutions to our current economic and political problems

‘You’re 82 years old. You’ve shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet you’re still beautiful, graceful and desirable’ – so begins André Gorz’s ‘open love letter’ to the woman he has lived with for 58 years and who lies dying next to him. As one of France’s leading post-war philosophers, André Gorz wrote many influential books, but nothing he wrote will be read as widely or remembered as long as this simple, passionate, beautiful letter to his dying wife. In a bittersweet postscript a year after Letter to D was published, a note pinned to the door for the cleaning lady marked the final chapter in an extraordinary love story. André Gorz and his terminally ill wife, Dorine, were found lying peacefully side by side, having taken their lives together. They simply could not live without one another. An international bestseller, Letter to D is the ultimate love story – and all the more poignant because it’s true.

Andre Gorz, to my mind the greatest of modern French social thinkers, dares to venture where no one really has before. Fighters for democratic socialism and an ecological society have each recognized the handwriting on the wall: modern society cannot continue on its present path. Neither group, however, has even begun to recognize the other's value, beyond being little more than a tactical means towards achieving their own ends. Gorz, in this exciting and penetrating gem of a book, addresses precisely this question, and offers a connection between the political and the ecological.In an age of crisis the realist becomes visionary and the visionary the rational architect of the future. Andre Gorz is just that. The present decade will be a debacle for progressive change unless our creative efforts move towards linking our concerns with the quality of life to those of economic and political structure. Andre Gorz, as this little volume bears witness, has taken up where Herbert Marcuse left off. 'The only things worthy of each,' Gorz says, 'are those which are good for all.' This book is worthy indeed of each.

A major new work by one of the leading social and political thinkers of our time. aeo Offers a fundamental reassessment of the future of work, at a time when the role of work in our lives is being transformed by profound economic and technological changes.