The dialectic of liberalism
Almost 250 years ago, Immanuel Kant defined the Enlightenment as man’s emergence from his self-inflicted immaturity. Since then, liberalism as a philosophical, political and economic movement has invoked this individual maturity and has shaped Western societies and their economic systems. But its appeal…
The repair society
When Jean Baudrillard wrote about consumer society in 1970, he was looking back on almost 30 years of continuous economic growth. The French Trente Glorieuses, the glorious thirties, had quadrupled the GDP per capita and created unprecedented prosperity. The term “miracle”, as used by…