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(2024)The Theory of the Leisure Class made Veblen famous for his theory of consumption as a channel of social competition. The Institutionalists praised and used his notion of intangible property. This article will show that ...
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(2024)The purpose of the chapter is to offer a quick manor on how Tarde in his monumental Psychologie economique, treats the theme of work. At the heart of his definition of the value of work is no longer time or physical effort ...
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(2024)Nietzsche takes decisive positions regarding the question of labour, positions that change in the different phases of his thinking. Initially, he extols the superior civilization of the Greeks in bitter controversy with ...
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(2024)The Victorian era is often considered to have been dominated by the 'Gospel of work', that is, the ideology that identified work as one of the supreme virtues. However, starting from about the 1870s, this ideology started ...
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(2024)Work plays a central role in the reflections of William Morris. According to Morris, industrial society is based on an organization of labor that debases the human being, reduced to a machine among machines, while art and ...
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(2024)The article analyzes the centrality of the question of work in the thought of Karl Marx, focusing in particular on the role that work has in the Marxian conception of man and in the materialistic understanding of history. ...
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(2024)The entry offers a brief examination of J.S. Mill’s views on work by attending especially to the Principles of Political Economy. Mill was greatly concerned with improving the conditions of the working classes yet his aim ...
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(2024)This chapter focuses on the emergence of industrial pauperism in France during the first half of the 19th century. It explores the liberal elites’ first responses to the spread of new forms of exclusion and deprivation ...
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(2024)Work is at the heart of Owen's universal model of society. Community heritage and measurement of the value of goods. Owen considers manual work as a barrier to the effects of the uncontrolled production of machines. He ...
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(2024)This article explores Charles Fourier's conception of the travail attrayant, work-pleasure. It analyzes the innovative nature of the relationship between human passions, their desiring energy and natural attraction for ...
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(2024)This contribution summarily reconstructs the genesis and development of the notion of ‘work’ in Hegel's philosophy, from the Jena years to the Berlin period. The topic is treated mainly in connection with such questions ...
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(2024)The following paper tries to show the different aspects of Fichte’s conception of labour. First of all, labour means the activity of appropriation through which man makes the world his own property. It is also a fundamental ...
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(2024)In the French Revolution, the extension of the ideal of a political community of free and equal citizens goes hand in hand with a new conception of work. Work becomes the main means of social integration, whether through ...
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(2024)David Hume and Adam Smith shared the same philosophical project: the construction of a ‘science of human nature ‘. Then with their writings – Hume in his economic and political ‘Essays’ and Smith in ‘The Wealth of Nations’ ...
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(2024)This essay underlines how the idea of Franklin's work does not correspond to the interpretation developed by Max Weber: on the one hand it was combined with the enhancement of free time and, on the other, as Sombart had ...
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(2024)The chapter introduces the section of the volume that deals with the historical period from the first beginnins of the industrial revolution to its most mature phase (Fordism) up to just before its crisis. It analyses the ...
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(2024)The Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (1751-1772) is the laboratory of experience of the new technical-rational values produced by the 18th century and the philosophie. Science ...
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(2024)The birth, or fortune, of work goes hand in hand with the recognition of the importance of a particular type of phenomenon that catalyzes Rousseau’s interest. The patrimonialistic model of wealth is replaced by the capitalist ...
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(2024)Unlike in the past, the phenomenon of luxury in the modern era marks a paradigm shift that has an immediate impact on the development of work in the capitalist sense. The wealth produced by the arts, commerce and work ...
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(2024)Mandeville lives in a transitional age in which economics, morality and politics are not clearly distinguished. He emphasises the contrast between the emerging economic rationality and Christian ethics, between utilitarianism ...
