Around the turn of the millennium, academics and politicians predicted that the world would grow together as one and that people would become less bound by national affiliations. Almost twenty years later, there is little left of this vision. This is not such a surprise when we consider that the cosmopolitan ideal (as articulated during the European Enlightenment) wholeheartedly embraced the promises of a globalising economy, yet has remained oblivious to, and even complicit with, capitalist exploitation, slavery, and colonialism....

Aureli fordert uns auf, Weniger weder unter dem Paradigma von Verlust und Schulden noch unter dem Anspruch von Wachstum und Steigerung zu betrachten und stattdessen entlang des Mottos Weniger ist genug alternative und kritische, kollektive und soziale Wendungen der Erfüllung jenseits von Besitz und Produktivität zu erforschen.