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Author Smith, Nicholas

Title New Philosophies of Labour : Work and the Social Bond
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (391 pages)
Series Social and Critical Theory
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 ANTHROPOLOGY8. 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 CapitalismNotes on Contributors; Index
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Labor -- Philosophy
Work -- Philosophy
Work -- Social aspects
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Labor -- Philosophy
Work -- Philosophy
Work -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Dr. Deranty, Jean-Philippe
ISBN 9789004215467
9004215468
1283334747
9781283334747
Other Titles New Philosophies of Labor