书目名称 | The Critique of Work in Modern French Thought | 副标题 | From Charles Fourier | 编辑 | Alastair Hemmens | 视频video | | 概述 | Offers a critical and historical approach to the meaning of work in society.Grounds today’s debates and the anti-work movement in that of critical theory.Highlights a turning point in the history of t | 丛书名称 | Studies in Revolution and Literature | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .What is work? Why do we do it? Since time immemorial the answer to these questions, from both the left and the right, has been that work is both a natural necessity and, barring exploitation, a social good. One might criticise its management, its compensation and who benefits from it the most, but never work itself, never work .as such.. In this book, Alastair Hemmens seeks to challenge these received ideas. Drawing on the new ‘critique-of-value’ school of Marxian critical theory, Hemmens demonstrates that capitalism and its final crisis cannot be properly understood except in terms of the historically specific and socially destructive character of labour. It is from this radical perspective that Hemmens turns to an innovative critical analysis of the rich history of radical French thinkers who, over the past two centuries, have challenged the labour form head on: from the utopian-socialist Charles Fourier, who called for the abolition of the separation between work and play, and Marx’s wayward son-in-law, Paul Lafargue, who demanded .The Right to Laziness. (1880), to the father of Surrealism, André Breton, who inaugurated a ‘war on work’, and, of course, the French Situationist, | 出版日期 | Book 2019 | 关键词 | work society; labor culture; labour culture; Marxian; Robert Kurz; capitalism | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12586-8 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-12588-2 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-12586-8Series ISSN 2946-4773 Series E-ISSN 2946-4781 | issn_series | 2946-4773 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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