Le travail dans l'histoire de la pensée occidentale PDF Download

Author: Daniel Mercure
Publisher: Presses de l'Université Laval
ISBN: 276371434X
Category : Social Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 310

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Le travail est-il une dimension fondamentale de la condition humaine? Quand et comment l'Occident en est-il arrivé à faire du travail une notion abstraite et de sa pratique quotidienne un élément central de nos vies? Afin de répondre à de telles questions, ce livre propose de revisiter les grands auteurs classiques et modernes de manière à circonscrire leurs interrogations relatives à l'effort, à l'oeuvre et au travail. Les penseurs étudiés dans cet ouvrage ont tous participé à des moments clés de l'histoire de l'Occident. Ainsi en est-il des philosophes et des théologiens, par exemple les philosophes grecs de l'Antiquité, puis saint Augustin, Luther, Calvin, les puritains anglais et évidemment Hegel. En économie politique, les conceptions et les analyses du travail chez Smith, Saint-Simon, Proudhon et Marx ont joué un rôle décisif dans l'émergence et la critique de la conception moderne du travail. En sociologie, Durkheim, Weber et plus récemment Habermas ont, chacun à leur manière, examiné de près la reconfiguration du lien social dans des sociétés de plus en plus façonnées par de nouvelles dynamiques du travail. Cet ouvrage contribue à conjurer l'amnésie conceptuelle et théorique afin de tracer les discontinuités et les continuités de nos interrogations sur le travail. Il convie les grands auteurs classiques et modernes à enrichir notre regard sur les réalités actuelles du travail afin de nous aider à penser différemment notre avenir.

Author: Franck Fischbach
Publisher: Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin
ISBN: 9782711630349
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Languages : fr
Pages : 410

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Heritiere d'une longue tradition de devalorisation des activites de travail, la philosophie est plus facilement tentee d'epouser les differentes versions du discours de la "fin du travail" que d'approfondir les differentes formes du retour de la problematique de la centralite du travail. L'histoire de la philosophie ne manque pourtant pas de ressources pour penser l'importance des differents enjeux propres au travail, depuis les problemes classiques relevant de l'anthropologie philosophique, de la metaphysique ou de l'ontologie, mais aussi de l'ethique, de la theorie de l'action ou de la theorie de la connaissance, jusqu'aux dimensions politiques et sociales. Il s'avere que ces questions, presentes pour certaines des l'Antiquite, sont restees decisives tout au long de l'histoire de la philosophie, mais qu'elles ont rarement ete considerees en tant que telles par les historiens de la philosophie, sans doute parce que le travail restait l'objet de prejuges sociaux depreciatifs qui le rendaient indigne des enquetes philosophiques d'ampleur. Les autrices et auteurs du present ouvrage se sont proposes de revisiter l'histoire de la philosophie occidentale du point de vue du travail et ainsi d'elever le theme du travail a la dignite philosophique qu'il merite, si rarement reconnue dans l'histoire de la philosophie. Sans pretention a l'exhaustivite, il s'est agi de rendre manifeste la presence constante du theme du travail, de rendre perceptible le plus grand nombre de ses implications et de faire apparaitre la richesse des concepts et des problematiques a travers lesquels il a ete pense - en esperant ainsi contribuer a relancer les recherches philosophiques dans ce domaine.

Author: Ferdinand Bakoup
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 178308023X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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‘Africa and Economic Policy: Developing a Framework for Policymakers’ aims to fill an important gap in the current literature on economic policy in developing countries. Despite its richness and sophistication, the current economic literature has not yet succeeded in developing a framework for economic policy that is clear and intelligible to policymakers in developing countries, and which is capable of effectively delivering a sustained increase in citizens’ well-being. This ground-breaking study seeks to rectify this problem by suggesting a unique conceptual framework for designing and conducting economic policy in developing countries, particularly those in Africa.

Author: Catharina Lis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135188798X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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This volume takes a fresh and innovative approach to the history of ideas of work, concerning perceptions, attitudes, cultures and representations of work throughout Antiquity and the medieval and early modern periods. Focusing on developments in Europe, the contributors approach the subject from a variety of angles, considering aspects of work as described in literature, visual culture, and as perceived in economic theory. As well as external views of workers the volume also looks at the meaning of work for the self-perception of various social groups, including labourers, artisans, merchants, and noblemen, and the effects of this on their self-esteem and social identity. Taking a broad chronological approach to the subject provides readers with a cutting-edge overview of research into the varying attitudes to work and its place in pre-industrial society.

Author: Ephraim Lytle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350078158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities The world of work saw marked developments over the course of antiquity. These were driven by social and economic changes, especially growth in market trade and related phenomena like urbanization and specialization. Although the self-sufficient agrarian household continued to prevail, economic realities everywhere intervened. Corresponding changes include the emergence of archaeologically distinct workplaces and even, in certain times and places, preindustrial factories. A diversity of workplace cultures often defied dominant gender and other social norms. Across an increasingly connected Mediterranean world, work contributed to and was in turn structured by mobility. Other striking developments included the emergence of state-sponsored leisure activities that offered respite from toil for all social classes. Through an exploration of these and other themes, this volume offers a reappraisal of ancient work and its relationship to Greek and Roman culture. A Cultural History of Work in Antiquity presents an overview of the period with essays on economies, representations of work, workplaces, work cultures, technology, mobility, society, politics and leisure.

Author: Catharina Lis
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004231439
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 679

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In Worthy Efforts Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly offer an innovative approach to the history of perceptions and representations of work in Europe throughout Classical Antiquity and the medieval and early modern periods.

Author: Alastair Hemmens
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030125866
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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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, Guy Debord, author of the famous graffito, ‘never work’. Ultimately, Hemmens considers normative changes in attitudes to work since the 1960s and the future of anti-capitalist social movements today. This book will be a crucial point of reference for contemporary debates about labour and the anti-work tradition in France.

Author: Austin Harrington
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415290465
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 752

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The Encyclopedia of Social Theory cuts across all relevant disciplines, theories, approaches, and schools to present the latest information and research.

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Publisher: International Labour Organization
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: Edward A. Tiryakian
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351936220
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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For Durkheim is a timely and original contribution to the debate about Durkheim at a time when his concerns on ethics, morality and civil religion have much relevance for our own troubled and divided society. It includes two new essays from Edward A. Tiryakian’s collection on the Danish Muhammad cartoons and September 11th, providing contemporary relevance to the debate and an analytical and interpretive introduction indicating the ongoing importance of Durkheim within sociology. This indispensable volume for all serious Durkheim scholars includes English translations of papers previously published in French for the first time, and will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, social historians and those interested in critical questions of modernity.