Mark Olssen, Professor of Political Theory and Higher Education Policy, Department of Politics, School of Social Sciences, University of Surrey, UK

‘Olssen’s new book outlines a political philosophy for our times. It rehabilitates freedom and the Good in and for a fragile world beset by polycrises. The argument for continuance ethics and shared flourishing is desperately relevant and urgently compelling. This is a thesis that demands to be taken seriously.’

• Contents1 The demise of the classical worldview2 Twentieth-century liberal alternatives to the good3 Arguing for the public good4 The complexity turn: Systems, uncertainty, and the good5 Will, purpose, and the emergent good6 Democracy as a global good7 ChatGPT and the good — AI, relational selfhood, and theemergent ethics of the collective8 Water as a global good: Ethics, ecology, and the politics of care9 Education and the planetary good10 Conclusion: The good of life continuance — unity, constraint,and freedom

Mark Olssen, Professor of Political Theory and Higher Education Policy, Department of Politics, School of Social Sciences, University of Surrey, UK

‘Olssen’s new book outlines a political philosophy for our times. It rehabilitates freedom and the Good in and for a fragile world beset by polycrises. The argument for continuance ethics and shared flourishing is desperately relevant and urgently compelling. This is a thesis that demands to be taken seriously.’

• Contents1 The demise of the classical worldview2 Twentieth-century liberal alternatives to the good3 Arguing for the public good4 The complexity turn: Systems, uncertainty, and the good5 Will, purpose, and the emergent good6 Democracy as a global good7 ChatGPT and the good — AI, relational selfhood, and theemergent ethics of the collective8 Water as a global good: Ethics, ecology, and the politics of care9 Education and the planetary good10 Conclusion: The good of life continuance — unity, constraint,and freedom

Mark Olssen, Professor of Political Theory and Higher Education Policy, Department of Politics, School of Social Sciences, University of Surrey, UK

‘Olssen’s new book outlines a political philosophy for our times. It rehabilitates freedom and the Good in and for a fragile world beset by polycrises. The argument for continuance ethics and shared flourishing is desperately relevant and urgently compelling. This is a thesis that demands to be taken seriously.’

• Contents1 The demise of the classical worldview2 Twentieth-century liberal alternatives to the good3 Arguing for the public good4 The complexity turn: Systems, uncertainty, and the good5 Will, purpose, and the emergent good6 Democracy as a global good7 ChatGPT and the good — AI, relational selfhood, and theemergent ethics of the collective8 Water as a global good: Ethics, ecology, and the politics of care9 Education and the planetary good10 Conclusion: The good of life continuance — unity, constraint,and freedom