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Books

Disobey! by Frédéric Gros

Tim Moxham urges us to disobey!

When we look around the world today, we often get a feeling of helplessness. States take decisions that place economics before citizens. Globally, corporations are denying basic living wages for their employees and acting in environmentally hazardous ways. How is it that they’re getting away with these things? And why, overall, are we obeying often unjust systems?

Frédéric Gros, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris and Paris’s Institute of Political Studies, addresses these questions in his emotive and pithy book, Disobey (2020). His analysis of obedience argues that to obey is to be an ‘automaton’ and that only through mental disobedience can we reassert our humanity.

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