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As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: outrageous inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war. The abiding motif of our time is relentless chaos.

"The communists do not preach morality at all"; this line from The Communist Manifesto might seem to settle the question of whether Marxism has anything to offer moral philosophy. Yet, Marx issued both trenchant critiques of "bourgeois" morality and thundering condemnations of capitalism's "vampire-like" destructiveness. He decried commodity-exchange for corroding our ability to value one another for who we are, not how much our lives could be traded away for.

Was ist lächerlich an der Vorstellung einer Welt ohne Gewalt? Warum wird der Traum von einem friedlichen Zusammenleben als kindliche Illusion abgetan, für Frieden demonstrierende Jugendliche sogar belächelt? Arno Gruen antwortet: Weil die Kraft der Träume die Anpassung an die angebliche Realität gefährdet. Menschen werden genau dann zu Eroberern und Kriegstreibern, wenn sie Gewalt mit Lebendigkeit verwechseln. Solange diese Illusion funktioniert, wird Größenwahn für Stärke gehalten.

This collection brings together history, science, philosophy and comedy to explore our age-old search for meaning. We live in an age of self-improvement and self-examination - lifehacking, wellbeing, self-care, mindfulness retreats - but this seemingly very modern phenomenon is a pursuit that...