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Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.  \nISBN-13: 978-0-7456-7017-1  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nTypeset in 11 on 13 pt Sabon  \nby Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited  \nPrinted and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Group Limited, Bodmin, Cornwall  \nThe publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate.  \nEvery effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been inadvertently overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition.  \nFor further information on Polity, visit [our website: www.politybooks.com](our website: www.politybooks.com)  \nContents  \nPreface by Claude Capelier vi  \nIntroduction: A Brief History of the Meaning of Life 1  \n1 The Revolution of Love: A New Principle of Meaning 35  \n2 Politics at the Dawn of a New Era: From the  \nRevolution of Love to Care for the Fate of  \nFuture Generations 62  \n3 On the Spiritual in Art and Education 108  \nConclusion: Death, the Only Objection? Love, a Utopia? 161  \nIndex 174  \nPreface  \nThe global crisis in which we find ourselves enmeshed has intensified the feeling that the world is out of control, that political remedies, on the Right and on the Left, no longer have any purchase on reality, that the values in whose name we act apply less and less to our way of life. We cannot continue to give in to this schizophrenia, this bad faith that makes us think of the present in terms of yesterday’s ideas – ideas that are now clearly obsolete. The aim of this book is, firstly, to show how and why this long period of bewilderment is producing, without our yet being fully aware of it, a new principle of meaning that will enable us to regain control over our destinies, give coherence to our way of seeing the world and set up ideals we can believe in; and secondly, it seeks to analyse the profound concrete changes that result from it in the great domains of individual and collective existence, namely, the family, politics, education and art.  \nThe public discourse of republican values (values that are no longer an issue in the debate, since we all support them, from the extreme Right to the extreme Left) is now light years away from the real questions of our lives as we see them (our children’s futures, the most important man or woman in our lives, the coming of a society that will enable everyone to flourish freely) . Hence the sterile stand-off between, on the one side, governments churning out endless measures that are doubtless technically or  \nPreface vii  \ntactically justified, but whose overall aim is clear to nobody; and, on the other side, the anger, fear and indignation that have gripped ordinary people in so many countries.  \nIt would be ungracious to lay the blame at the feet of politicians alone since each of us is prey to the same symptoms. Like them, we defend principles that no longer correspond to the way we act. The same people who protest every day against the snare and delusion of consumption will change their iPhones every six months; those who t","cbCaiegZspKKUjzx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiegZspKKUjzx","pdf",850404,192,"English","# Contents\n## Preface by Claude Capelier\n## Introduction: A Brief History of the Meaning of Life\n## The Revolution of Love: A New Principle of Meaning\n## Politics at the Dawn of a New Era\n## On the Spiritual in Art and Education\n## Conclusion: Death, the Only Objection? 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