LEADER 04041nam 22006135 450 001 9910483422403321 005 20240322062932.0 010 $a9783030125868 010 $a3030125866 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-12586-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000008048163 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5771212 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-12586-8 035 $a(Perlego)3491605 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008048163 100 $a20190426d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Critique of Work in Modern French Thought $eFrom Charles Fourier to Guy Debord /$fby Alastair Hemmens 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (233 pages) 225 1 $aStudies in Revolution and Literature,$x2946-4781 311 08$a9783030125851 311 08$a3030125858 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $aWhat is work? Why do we do it? Since time immemorial the answer to these questions, from both the left and the right, has been that work is both a natural necessity and, barring exploitation, a social good. One might criticise its management, its compensation and who benefits from it the most, but never work itself, never work as such. In this book, Alastair Hemmens seeks to challenge these received ideas. Drawing on the new 'critique-of-value' school of Marxian critical theory, Hemmens demonstrates that capitalism and its final crisis cannot be properly understood except in terms of the historically specific and socially destructive character of labour. It is from this radical perspective that Hemmens turns to an innovative critical analysis of the rich history of radical French thinkers who, over the past two centuries, have challenged the labour form head on: from the utopian-socialist Charles Fourier, who called for the abolition of the separation between work and play,and Marx's wayward son-in-law, Paul Lafargue, who demanded The Right to Laziness (1880), to the father of Surrealism, André Breton, who inaugurated a 'war on work', and, of course, the French Situationist, Guy Debord, author of the famous graffito, 'never work'. Ultimately, Hemmens considers normative changes in attitudes to work since the 1960s and the future of anti-capitalist social movements today. This book will be a crucial point of reference for contemporary debates about labour and the anti-work tradition in France. 410 0$aStudies in Revolution and Literature,$x2946-4781 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aLiterary Theory 606 $aLiterary History 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aEuropean Literature 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 14$aLiterary Theory. 615 24$aLiterary History. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 676 $a840.71 676 $a331.01 700 $aHemmens$b Alastair$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01229447 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483422403321 996 $aThe Critique of Work in Modern French Thought$92853759 997 $aUNINA