Clear Bright Future
A Radical Defence of the Human Being
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- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
19 May 2020
Summary
How can we preserve our humanity in an age of uncertainty? This work of radical optimism from the bestselling author of Postcapitalism shows us how to reclaim our values.
Are we now just consumers shaped by market forces? A sequence of DNA? A collection of base instincts? Or will we soon be supplanted by algorithms and A.I. anyway?
In Clear Bright Future, Paul Mason calls for a radical, impassioned defence of the human being, our universal rights and freedoms and our …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141986722 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141986727 |
| Author: | Paul Mason |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 19 May 2020 |
| Weight: | 269g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
It has quick wit, vivid prose and makes rapid and stimulating connections. Its subtitle sums up its strengths. Fundamentally, Mason believes in the power of agency - the ability to choose to act and shape your own future.—John McTernan, Financial Times
A very interesting book, wide-ranging, insightful and yet still optimistic…some of his glosses on the history of ideas, and their impact on our troubled present, are alone worth the price of the book: he explains, lucidly and persuasively, how the uncertainty principles of quantum mechanics - questionable in themselves - have bled, via post-modernist theory, into the climate of irrationalism and fatalism that fuels Brexit, Putin and Trump.—Ed O’Loughin, Irish Times
Clear Bright Future’s account of our political predicament is thrilling.—Eliane Glaser, Guardian
Paul Mason is doing something remarkable in this book, though it shouldn’t be remarkable: he’s focusing on the nature of being human, and how this is affected for better or worse by social, economic, and political forces that might seem overwhelming. It’s the best analysis of neo-liberalism that I’ve seen for a long time, and puts our lives in a richly described context. Best of all, it’s written with clarity and passion. I hope it’ll change many minds.—Philip Pullman
Amid the ruins of many modern ideologies, Paul Mason’s consistently bracing book offers a guide to a sustainable future - one that we can still shape with a fresh transformational vision of what it means to be free human being. Everyone should read it.—Pankaj Mishra
An unshakable humanist faith runs through this book… with his humane stress on the good life, Mason defies the caricature of the Corbyn left as reheated Soviet Communism. Corbynism is also routinely charged with wanting to “take us back to the 1970s.” But here its leading thinker engages with tomorrow’s economy with an urgency that’s not currently matched on the right.—Tom Clark, Prospect
Paul Mason
Paul Mason
An award-winning writer, broadcaster, and film-maker. Previously economics editor of Channel 4 News, his books include:
- PostCapitalism
- Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere: the New Global Revolutions
- Live Working Die Fighting
- Rare Earth: A Novel
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