
New Philosophies of Labour : Work and the Social Bond.
Title:
New Philosophies of Labour : Work and the Social Bond.
Author:
Smith, Nicholas.
ISBN:
9789004215467
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (391 pages)
Series:
Social and Critical Theory ; v.13
Social and Critical Theory
Contents:
New Philosophies of Labour -- Copyright -- Contents -- Volume Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Work, Recognition and the Social Bond: Changing Paradigms -- PART ONE FROM HEGEL TO INSTITUTIONALISM -- 2. The Role of Work within the Processes of Recognition in Hegel's Idealism -- 3. The Legacy of Hegelian Philosophy and the Future of Critical Theory -- 4. Recognition Theory and Institutional Labour Economics -- PART TWO CRITIQUE, NORM AND WORK -- 5 The Political Invisibility of Work and its Philosophical Echoes -- 6. Expression and Cooperation as Norms of Contemporary Work -- 7. Three Normative Models of Work -- PART THREE WORK AND SUBJECTIVITY: TOWARDS A PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY -- 8. From the Psychopathology to the Psychodynamics of Work -- 9. Care as Work: Mutual Vulnerabilities and Discrete Knowledge -- PART FOUR WORK, RECOGNITION AND THE CHANGING FACE OF CAPITALISM -- 10. Admiration without Appreciation? The Paradoxes of Recognition of Doubly Subjectivised Work -- 11. "Exclusive Focus on Figures. Exclusive Focus on Returns." Marketisation as a Principle of Organisation and a Problem of Recognition -- 12. A Critical Assessment of Orthodox Economic Conceptions of Work -- 13. Liberalism, Neutrality and Varieties of Capitalism -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
This volume addresses the long-standing neglect of the category of labour in critical social theory and it presents a powerful case for a new paradigm based on the anthropological significance of work and its role in shaping social bonds.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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