Jordi Pigem

Good Crisis

Original title:

Buena crisis. Hacia un mundo postmaterialista

About the book:

Good Crisis

Towards a Postmaterialist World

Crisis originally meant the turning point in the course of a disease. Physicians spoke of a good crisis, a favourable crisis or even a happy crisis when it led to the healing of the patient. Good crisis sheds light on the critical moment we are in and on how we got to this place, and it presents an emerging postmaterialistic paradigm that can lead us to a saner and wiser society and to a more ecological and meaningful world.

Interdisciplinary and compelling, Good crisis is written in an original structure of fifty sections that allow for multiple readings focused on specific themes.

“This book is called to mark a turning point in our collective consciousness… We need the light that this book sheds more than ever.” -Álex Rovira, coauthor of Good Luck

Buena Crisis starts with the eloquent argument that the current economic crisis is only the most visible symptom of an older and much deeper systemic crisis, which is largely a crisis of perception. In the author's view, it is the result of our fatal obsession with materialism in a double sense —of scientists seeing the world as nothing but a collection of material building blocks, and of people craving for material possessions to mask their disenchantment and alienation in such a world. This is a brilliant and inspiring book — essential reading for all who are concerned about the future of humanity." -Fritjof Capra, author of The Web of Life and The Hidden Connections

About the author:

Jordi Pigem (Barcelona, 1964), Ph. D., is the author of La odisea de Occidente and El pensament de Raimon Panikkar and a contributor to written and spoken media in Spanish, Catalan and English.