Kate Soper

Kate Soper is Emerita Professor of Philosophy at London Metropolitan University. She has been an editorial collective member of Radical Philosophy and of New Left Review. Her most recent books are Post-Growth Living: for an Alternative Hedonism and the coedited volumes Citizenship and Consumption and The Politics and Pleasures of Consuming Differently.

Reconsidering the Good Life

Feminist philosophers Kate Soper and Lynne Segal discuss the unsustainable obsession with economic growth and consider what it might look like if we all worked less.

  • Lynne Segal
  • Kate Soper
  • Anthony Morgan

Post-Growth Pleasure

Final response: A “greened” economy is still a capitalist one.

  • Kate Soper

The Limits of the Growth Economy

It’s bad for the planet and bad for us. Fortunately, sustainable living need not come at the expense of well-being.

  • Kate Soper
with responses from
  • Robert Pollin
  • Jackson Lears
  • Lida Maxwell
  • Will Rinehart
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Nanjala Nyabola
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