The Critique of Work in Modern French Thought From Charles Fourier to Guy Debord /

• Main Author: Hemmens, Alastair (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Studies in Revolution and Literature
• Subjects: Literature-Philosophy.; Literature-History and criticism.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; European literature.; Literary Theory.; Literary History.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; European Literature.

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 n...

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.