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(2024)Heller focuses the issue work in the 60s and 70s, mainly in three different contexts: everyday life, radical needs, the critique of Lukács’s Ontology of social being, in which “work” is presented as a model for social ...
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(2024)The essay deals with the thought of E.P. Thompson with reference to the transformation of work behavior. Moving from the presentation of his peculiar historiographical approach, the essay critically examines the article ...
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(2024)The essay examines Marcuse's refelction on labour, on its ontological status, its alienation and its possible liberation, starting from the early writings of the German philosopher and then focusing on his main works such ...
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(2024)Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen was born in Constanța (Romania) in 1906. He was Professor of Economics at the University of Nashville (Tennessee, USA). He died in 1994 in the US. He held that economic calculations should include ...
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(2024)The paper is essentially based on two writings by Hannah Arendt: Marx and the tradition of Western political thought and Vita activa. In her confrontation with Marx, the author denounces the ambiguity of the glorification ...
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(2024)The subject at work, in different forms and modalities, is at the center of attention of these three scholars. Labor relations constitute the fulcrum in which the condition and action of workers and their social movements ...
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(2024)The characters present in Albert Camus novels are lazy, indolent, do not like to work, because they live in contact with nature, with the sea, with the sun, with the heat and because they suffer from the constraints of a ...
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(2024)The article analyzes the evolution of Simone Weil's thought on work, free time and attention, from the factory experience of 1934-35, to the last writings following the author's mystical turning point. A picture emerges ...
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(2024)The "community personalism" matures in the reflection on work, person, economy and politics between capitalism and collectivism. Even with intuitions, the sense of work fluctuates quite a lot. Exploited and oppressed, it ...
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(2024)In Friedrich Pollock's thinking, the analysis of the impact of technological transformations on the world of work plays a central role. From the essays of the late 1920s that led to the development of the concept of State ...
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(2024)Plautus writes his comedies at the age of the Roman expansion in the Mediterranean, when remarkable social and economic transformations rapidly took place in Rome. He complains about the passage from ancestral moral customs ...
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(2024)Are all the barbarians slaves by nature according to Aristotle? This contribution intends to answer this question, in the awareness that the theme of natural slavery is one of the most complex and tormented in Aristotelian ...
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(2024)The contribution aims to examine the theme of the work in Aristotle, through a “Multifocal Approach” that takes into account two opposite scenarios (here called, respectively, "theoretical-conceptual frame" and "political-social ...
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(2024)The article traces a brief profile of Xenophon's influence in the History of Economic Thought, in particular in Marx's labour theory. Some passages from Xenophon’s works are presented, from which the idea of an embryonic ...
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(2024)During the 5th century B.C., skills (technai), including manual ones, assume an exceptional role in Greek society and culture. Plato's attitude appears to be twofold: on the one hand he credits the possessors of these ...
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(2024)The Works and Days represent the first complete self-awareness of (manual) work in our culture. Since it is impossible to write a poem without interrupting the work activity it speaks of, the Works and Days are also the ...
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(2024)In Homer the virtuous and profitable activities are war, robbery, piracy, the physical suppression of the vanquished who cannot be reduced to slavery. Work is not in itself despised, but it has a lower value and belongs ...
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(2024)The purpose of this introduction is to explore some of the many themes examined in the various contributions contained in the 'ancient part' of this collection, firstly by intertwining the concepts of work and leisure with ...
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(2024)The introduction proposes an interpretation of the ideas of work of our civilization that problematizes the question of the sociality of work. Remembering that for Karl Marx the novelty of the capitalist mode of production ...
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(2023)The contribution focuses on the operational model regarding the mediatability of litigation applied to both the aggression of the backlog and the management of incoming flows. In the first part of the chapter, the prodromal ...
