A Modest Proposal: A Plan for the Golden Years (Melville Manifestos) - Softcover

Debray, Regis

 
9781933633039: A Modest Proposal: A Plan for the Golden Years (Melville Manifestos)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1933633034 ISBN 13: 9781933633039
Verlag: Melville House Pub, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

In this scathingly funny satire, one of France’s leading philosophers observes that modern society is burdened by numerous questions of how to care for the elderly. How to pay for their staggering medical bills? How to ensure their conscientious treatment? How to simply house them all? It’s more than the resources of our culture can handle, says Régis Debray—and it’s making life difficult for everyone else. So, he makes a “modest proposal”….

In the great tradition of the irreverent satires of Jonathan Swift, Debray outlines a plan so devilish and absurd that the only response is laughter. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, he declares an end to all the world’s problems if we would only do this one little thing—something a corrupt culture may already be doing anyway.

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French philosopher Régis Debray, author of the classic rebel primer Revolution in the Revolution, first gained fame when he was captured with Che Guevara in 1967, and was only released after the intervention of Charles de Gaulle. He subsequently was an advisor to the French President Francois Mitterand, and has written numerous books on philosophy, politics, and art criticism.

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Verlag
Melville House Pub
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1933633034
ISBN 13 
9781933633039
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
92
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