An original, critical, and stimulating reflection on the ultimate stage of contemporary neoliberal logic.

In 2016, Jean-Claude Michéa decided to settle in a little village to break away from the big city lifestyle of and the liberal logic of "always more." Thus it is from the "periphery" that he offers us the conclusions of his critical analyses of the capitalist system. He lays out the ultimate consequences of progressive and capitalist logic in our modern societies: the cult of growth, environmental destruction, inequalities and economic precarity, the dissolving of traditional solidarities, dogmatism and transhumanism. His book seeks to do what no political party has succeeded in doing: to understand how capitalism has become a "total social reality"—economic, political and cultural—so that we may at last be capable of imagining a viable alternative.