Freinacht, Hanzi. The Listening Society, 2017. This is, first and foremost, a book about politics. But a politics that goes beyond our current three-way ring of neoliberal capitalism, welfare states, and green politics (which only seeks to sustain our current civilization.) It is a complete poliitcal and social theory, one that is supposed to prevent vast amounts of suffering in the future. It outcompetes the current welfare systems by focusing on the psychological development of citizens. Metamodernism was a term coined by two Dutch art critics Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van der Akker. They identified a new attitude in art which combined irony and sarcasm with sincerity and vulnerability. Philosophy as an engine of the mind.