We're hammered, we're slammed, we're out of control. Happiness is on the decline in the most affluent country in the world and Americans are troubled by the destructiveness of a lifestyle devoted to money and status. Yet no-one seems to have a clue how to exit from the Fast Lane...
Slow Is Beautiful analyzes the subtle consumer, political and corporate forces stamping the joy from our existence and provides a vision of a more fulfilling life through the rediscovery of caring community, unhurried leisure, and life affirming joie de vivre. The book discusses:
- the frantic time poverty plaguing everyone - a poverty that is being challenged by the growing Slow Life movement whose message is reverberating around the world
- the need to build a culture of connection with both people and the planet by challenging the consumer society and recreating vibrant life in our local communities
- the creation of a different experience of time where we live life in slower, more reflective ways, savoring our lives and recapturing exuberance and laughter.
Offering inspiration and concrete ideas, Slow Is Beautiful will appeal to a broad audience of Baby Boomers nearing retirement, harried professionals with a social conscience, the one-time "middle class," and 20-30-somethings who are now facing the sobering realities of constricted choices.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 158.1
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0865715548 9781550924145
- LCCN
- BJ1581.2
- LCCN Item number
- A535 2006eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (x, 245 p.)
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00222757 (OCoLC)471124890 (CaOOCEL)432020
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Advance Praise 2
- Title Page 4
- Rights Page 5
- Dedication 6
- Table of Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Chapter 1: Toward a Philosophy of Slow 12
- Chapter 2: The Truth About Happiness 24
- Chapter 3: Reversing the Spell of Status 54
- Chapter 4: “Fast” and the Consumer Society 66
- Chapter 5: Work Slowdown 84
- Chapter 6: The Subversiveness of Joie de Vivre 102
- Chapter 7: Visionary Leisure 150
- Chapter 8: Slow Together: Exuberant Community 174
- Chapter 9: Slow Is Beautiful 208
- Bibliography 238
- Endnotes 242
- Index 252
- About the Author 256
