10 hrs 35 mins | PHILOSOPHY | MovementsGraceful Simplicity: The Foundations of Bread and Roses Socialism is a new audiobook prepared with an eye on the 2024 Presidential elections. The author, Jerome Segal, is challenging Joe Biden for the nomination of the Democratic Party.
The audiobook is primarily the first audio of Dr. Segal’s seminal 1999 book, Graceful Simplicity: The Philosophy and Politics of Simple Living. The original book made two main contributions to the literature on simple living. First, it argued that beauty and creative expression should be counted among our basic needs, and their fulfillment part of what s...
Graceful Simplicity: The Foundations of Bread and Roses Socialism is a new audiobook prepared with an eye on the 2024 Presidential elections. The author, Jerome Segal, is challenging Joe Biden for the nomination of the Democratic Party.
The audiobook is primarily the first audio of Dr. Segal’s seminal 1999 book, Graceful Simplicity: The Philosophy and Politics of Simple Living. The original book made two main contributions to the literature on simple living. First, it argued that beauty and creative expression should be counted among our basic needs, and their fulfillment part of what simple living aspires to. Secondly, it argued that simple living should be thought of as more than a life-style choice. Rather, it should animate a new politics, one which places making the option of simple living relevant to people at all parts of the income spectrum, the central goal of socio-economic policy. Concretely, this means making it possible for people on a minimum wage to meet their core needs (including beauty) on 4 or even 3 days of Job System work per week.
Starting when he first ran for public office in 2018, Dr. Segal went from writing about the need for a politics of simplicity to actually pursuing one. Over time he came to use the term “Bread and Roses socialism” to characterize his political program, and came to call himself, a bread and roses socialist. The new audiobook opens with a 25 page preface that explains the transition from “graceful simplicity” to “bread and roses socialism” as well as the conceptual linkage between the two concepts.
Graceful Simplicity (1999) was a Book of the Month Club selection, and was translated into Danish and Chinese.
| # | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | 001 Graceful Simplicity - New Opening Credits |
0 mins 14 secs |
| 2. | 002 Preface |
19 mins 57 secs |
| 3. | 003 Chapter 01 |
53 mins 45 secs |
| 4. | 004 Chapter 02 |
54 mins 13 secs |
| 5. | 005 Chapter 03 |
1 hr 12 mins |
| 6. | 006 Chapter 04-A |
57 mins 33 secs |
| 7. | 007 Chapter 04-B |
54 mins 53 secs |
| 8. | 008 Chapter 05-A |
44 mins 36 secs |
| 9. | 009 Chapter 05-B |
46 mins 54 secs |
| 10. | 010 Chapter 06 |
54 mins 31 secs |
| 11. | 011 Chapter 07 |
51 mins 10 secs |
| 12. | 012 Chapter 08 |
33 mins 06 secs |
| 13. | 013 Chapter 09 |
29 mins 26 secs |
| 14. | 014 Chapter 10 |
41 mins 05 secs |
| 15. | 015 Conclusion |
12 mins 00 secs |
| 16. | 016 Epilogue 2022 |
6 mins 07 secs |
| 17. | 017 New Credits |
0 mins 32 secs |
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