Preface to the English-Language Edition-- Preamble-- A Change in Civilization Is Taking Place before Your Eyes-- The Old Nightmares Still Disturb Our Dreams of Renewal-- The Earthquake of the French Revolution-- The False Promise of Free Trade-- From Productivism to Consumerism-- The Illusion of Consumable Well-Being-- Consumerism Has Reduced All Values to Market Value-- The Revolution of Everyday Life--Finance Capital: Money as Mains Sewerage-- For and Against Culture-- After Master Thinkers, Unthinking Slaves--Populist Regression, the Culture of Nothing, and the Dumbing Down of the MassesConsciousness and Emotion-- The Intellectual Bloodstain; Ideology: An Illness of Being-- The Man of Ressentiment: The Revenge of the Body Frustrated in Its Desires-- The Last Struggle: An Endemic War between the Party of Death and Commitment to Life-- A New Con Game: Ecological Neocapitalism-- What Is Most Lacking Is Awareness of the Self and the World-- Bidding Farewell to an Inhuman Past-- Disentangling the Thread of Life from the Past That Has Hidden It-- Love of Life Needs No Ethic--Transcendence of Survival Implies the Birth of a New Kind of LifeYou Are the Children of an Endless Spring-- Fighting for Life Is Not Fighting against Death-- For a Festive Society.