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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814162403321

Autore

Gulli Bruno <1959->

Titolo

Earthly plenitudes : a study on sovereignty and labor / / Bruno Gulli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-42367-3

9786612423673

1-59213-981-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Disciplina

331.01

Soggetti

Labor - Philosophy

Work - Philosophy

Marxian economics

Capitalism

Sovereignty

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pt. 1, Critique of sovereignty. Singularity or the dignity of individuation ; Exception and critique ; Bataille's special use of the concept of sovereignty -- Pt. 2, Sovereignty and labor. Ax and fire : knowledge production and the superexploitation of contingent academic labor ; Sovereign, productive, and efficient : the place of disability in the Ableist society.

Sommario/riassunto

A fierce critique of productivity and sovereignty in the world of labor and everyday life, Bruno Gullì€'s Earthly Plenitudes asks, can labor exist without sovereignty and without capitalism? He introduces the concept of dignity of individuation to prompt a rethinking of categories of political ontology. Dignity of individuation stresses the notion that the dignity of each and any individual being lies in its being individuated as such; dignity is the irreducible and most essential character of any being. Singularity is a more universal quality.Gullì€ first reviews approaches to sove