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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450568503321

Autore

Gullì Bruno <1959->

Titolo

Labor of fire [[electronic resource] ] : the ontology of labor between economy and culture / / Bruno Gullì

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, PA, : Temple University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-281-09385-8

9786611093853

1-59213-114-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

Labor in crisis

Disciplina

331/.01

Soggetti

Labor - Philosophy

Work - Philosophy

Marxian economics

Capitalism

Economics - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Ontology of Labor: Problems of the Relationship between Philosophy and Political Economy; REMARK: The Productive Power of Capital; 2 On the Difference between Living Labor and Productive Labor; REMARK: 1 Dialectic and metaphysics; REMARK: 2 Vulgar metaphysics and poetic metaphysics; 3 Radicalizing the Ontology of Labor: Institution and Utopia; 4 The Solitude of Labor: On the Relationship between Creative Labor and Artistic Production; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Labor of Fire, Bruno Gullì offers a timely and much needed re-examination of the concept of labor. Distinguishing between ""productive labor"" (working for money or subsistence) and ""living labor"" (working for artistic creation), Gullì convincingly argues for a definition of work that recognizes the importance of artistic and social creativity to our definition of labor and the self. Gullì lays the groundwork for his book by offering a critique of productive labor, and then maps out his productive/living labor distinction in detail,



reviewing the work of Marx and other