Anti-utilitarianism is a school of thought that critiques the hegemony of the epistemological postulates of economics in the humanities and social sciences. Anti-utilitarians assert the crucial importance of the social bond when compared to self-interest. They outline a gift exchange paradigm that aims to overstep two major frameworks of the social sciences: holism and methodological individualism. In 1981, the French sociologist, Alain Caillé, and the Swiss anthropologist, Gérald Berthoud, gave birth to MAUSS – Mouvement anti-utilitariste dans les sciences sociales (Anti-utilitarian Movement in the Social Sciences). This brilliant acronym reproduces the surname of the author of The Gift (1924), Marcel Mauss. Most anti-utilitarians reproach Latouche for the choice of the term “degrowth”: it implicitly embeds the alternative into the economic imaginary. They call, instead, for a “political” critique of boundlessness and excess, uprooting the discourse from an ethical level.

Romano, O. (2018). 반공리주의. In Giacomo D’Alisa - Federico Demarca - Giorgos Kallis (a cura di), 탈성장 개념어 사전 무소유가 죽음이 아니듯, 탈성장도 종말이 아니다 (Korean edition of "Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era" (pp. 54-60). KOR : Gumulcu.

반공리주의

Romano, Onofrio
2018-01-01

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Anti-utilitarianism is a school of thought that critiques the hegemony of the epistemological postulates of economics in the humanities and social sciences. Anti-utilitarians assert the crucial importance of the social bond when compared to self-interest. They outline a gift exchange paradigm that aims to overstep two major frameworks of the social sciences: holism and methodological individualism. In 1981, the French sociologist, Alain Caillé, and the Swiss anthropologist, Gérald Berthoud, gave birth to MAUSS – Mouvement anti-utilitariste dans les sciences sociales (Anti-utilitarian Movement in the Social Sciences). This brilliant acronym reproduces the surname of the author of The Gift (1924), Marcel Mauss. Most anti-utilitarians reproach Latouche for the choice of the term “degrowth”: it implicitly embeds the alternative into the economic imaginary. They call, instead, for a “political” critique of boundlessness and excess, uprooting the discourse from an ethical level.
2018
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Romano, O. (2018). 반공리주의. In Giacomo D’Alisa - Federico Demarca - Giorgos Kallis (a cura di), 탈성장 개념어 사전 무소유가 죽음이 아니듯, 탈성장도 종말이 아니다 (Korean edition of "Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era" (pp. 54-60). KOR : Gumulcu.
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