{"product_id":"letter-to-my-children-and-the-children-of-the-world-to-come-paperback","title":"Letter to My Children and the Children of the World to Come - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRaoul Vaneigem\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Holloway\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by), \u003cb\u003eDonald Nicholson-Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders of Vaneigem's now-classic work \u003cem\u003eThe Revolution of Everyday Life\u003c\/em\u003e, which as one of the main contributions of the Situationist International was a herald of the May 1968 uprisings in France, will find much to challenge them in these pages written in the highest idiom of subversive utopianism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten some thirty-five years after the May \"events,\" this short book poses the question of what kind of world we are going to leave to our children. \"How could I address my daughters, my sons, my grandchildren and great-grandchildren,\" wonders Vaneigem, \"without including all the others who, once precipitated into the sordid universe of money and power, are in danger, even tomorrow, of being deprived of the promise of a life that is undeniably offered at birth as a gift with nothing expected in return?\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Letter to My Children\u003c\/em\u003e provides a clear-eyed survey of the critical predicament into which the capitalist system has now plunged the world, but at the same time, in true dialectical fashion, and \"far from the media whose job it is to ignore them,\" Vaneigem discerns all the signs of \"a new burgeoning of life forces among the younger generations, a new drive to reinstate true human values, to proceed with the clandestine construction of a living society beneath the barbarity of the present and the ruins of the Old World.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1934, \u003cb\u003eRaoul Vaneigem\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and a former member of the Situationist International. His works include \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Cavalier History of Surrealism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eContributions to the Revolutionary Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e, and the globally influential text \u003ci\u003eThe Revolution of Everyday Life\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eJohn Holloway\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of sociology at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades in the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico. His book \u003ci\u003eChange the World without Taking Power\u003c\/i\u003e has been translated into 11 languages and has stirred an international debate. \u003cb\u003eDonald Nicholson-Smith\u003c\/b\u003e has translated many Situationist works, including Guy Debord's \u003ci\u003eThe Society of the Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e and Vaneigem's \u003ci\u003eThe Revolution of Everyday Life\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.8 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764228817184,"sku":"9781629635125","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f0db169d5ac77e86cdc41c6b03b50256.webp?v=1780246262","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/letter-to-my-children-and-the-children-of-the-world-to-come-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}