From the financial crisis to the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the society of risk has become the model of our contemporary world constantly threatened by ecological, economic or political collapse. How can we avoid pessimism and the ambient gloom-mongering? What collective alternatives can be built to face up to the crisis of the future? From spirituality to life in society, from political economy to psychic life, an encounter with an iconoclastic intellectual to better "live through the end of time."