- Published: 2 May 2019
- ISBN: 9780241320112
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 368
Clear Bright Future
A Radical Defence of the Human Being
- Published: 2 May 2019
- ISBN: 9780241320112
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 368
Deeply engaging ... a worthy successor to Marx
Praise for POSTCAPITALISM, David Runciman, Guardian
The most important book about economy and society to be published in my lifetime
Praise for POSTCAPITALISM, Irvine Welsh
Paul Mason is doing something remarkable in this book, though it shouldn't be remarkable: he's focusing on the nature of being human, and how this is affected for better or worse by social, economic, and political forces that might seem overwhelming. It's the best analysis of neo-liberalism that I've seen for a long time, and puts our lives in a richly described context. Best of all, it's written with clarity and passion. I hope it'll change many minds.
Philip Pullman
Amid the ruins of many modern ideologies, Paul Mason's consistently bracing book offers a guide to a sustainable future - one that we can still shape with a fresh transformational vision of what it means to be free human being. Everyone should read it.
Pankaj Mishra
It has quick wit, vivid prose and makes rapid and stimulating connections. Its subtitle sums up its strengths. Fundamentally, Mason believes in the power of agency - the ability to choose to act and shape your own future.
John McTernan, Financial Times
A very interesting book, wide-ranging, insightful and yet still optimistic...some of his glosses on the history of ideas, and their impact on our troubled present, are alone worth the price of the book: he explains, lucidly and persuasively, how the uncertainty principles of quantum mechanics - questionable in themselves - have bled, via post-modernist theory, into the climate of irrationalism and fatalism that fuels Brexit, Putin and Trump.
Ed O'Loughin, Irish Times
Clear Bright Future's account of our political predicament is thrilling.
Eliane Glaser, Guardian