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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Critique of Work in Modern French Thought
    sub title: From Charles Fourier to Guy Debord
  name:
    name part: Hemmens, Alastair.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 226 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Marxian Theory and the Critique of Work -- Chapter 2: Charles Fourier, Utopian Socialism and Attractive Labour -- Chapter 3: Paul Lafargue, Early French Marxism and the Right to Laziness -- Chapter 4: André Breton, the Artistic Avant-Garde and Surrealism's War on Work -- Chapter 5: Guy Debord, the Situationist International and the Abolition of Alienated Labour -- Chapter 6: The New Spirit of Capitalism and the Critique of Work in France since May '68 -- Chapter 7: News from Nowhere, or an Epoch of Rest.
  note: by Alastair Hemmens.
  subject:
    topic: Literature-Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Literature-History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-19th century
  subject:
    topic: European literature
  subject:
    topic: Literary Theory
  subject:
    topic: Literary History
  subject:
    topic: Nineteenth-Century Literature
  subject:
    topic: European Literature
  classification: PN45-57
  classification: 801
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Studies in Revolution and Literature
  identifier: 9783030125868
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12586-8
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    record creation date: 190426
    record change date: 20191026082218.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-12586-8