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What 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.

French literature --- Study and teaching. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Literature-History and criticism. --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- European literature. --- Literary Theory. --- Literary History. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- European Literature. --- European literature --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Literature—History and criticism. --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Literature --- Literature, Modern --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Philosophy. --- History and criticism. --- 19th century. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Theory

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Books Across Borders: UNESCO and the Politics of Postwar Cultural Reconstruction, 1945-1951 is a history of the emotional, ideological, informational, and technical power and meaning of books and libraries in the aftermath of World War II, examined through the cultural reconstruction activities undertaken by the Libraries Section of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The book focuses on the key actors and on-the-ground work of the Libraries Section in four central areas: empowering libraries around the world to acquire the books they wanted and needed; facilitating expanded global production of quality translations and affordable books; participating in debates over the contested fate of confiscated books and displaced libraries; and formulating notions of cultural rights as human rights. Through examples from France, Poland, and surviving Jewish Europe, this book provides new insight into the complexities and specificities of UNESCO’s role in the realm of books, libraries, and networks of information exchange during the early postwar, post-Holocaust, Cold War years.

Literature-History and criticism. --- Literature-Translations. --- World War, 1939-1945. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Literary History. --- Translation Studies. --- History of World War II and the Holocaust. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Literature—History and criticism. --- Literature—Translations. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature --- Comparative literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Comparative Literature. --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- History and criticism. --- 20th century. --- History and criticism --- Appraisal --- Evaluation

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This book foregrounds the pressures that three transformative technologies in the long sixteenth century—the printing press, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass—placed on long-held literary practices, as well as on cultural and social structures. Sheila J. Nayar disinters the clash between humanist drives and print culture; places the rise of gunpowder warfare beside the equivalent rise in chivalric romance; and illustrates fraught attempts by humanists to hold on to classicist traditions in the face of seismic changes in navigation. Lively and engaging, this study illuminates not only how literature responded to radical technological changes, but also how literature was sometimes forced, through unanticipated destabilizations, to reimagine itself. By tracing the early modern human’s inter-animation with print, powder, and compass, Nayar exposes how these technologies assisted in producing new ways of seeing, knowing, and being in the world.

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Dit boek is een huldeboek voor em. prof. dr. Wilfried Janssens. Het is geen liber amicorum in de gebruikelijke zin van het woord. De meeste libri amicorum beperken zich tot het onderzoeksgebied van de gevierde, maar de activiteiten van Wilfried Janssens strekten zich uit tot niets minder dan het oprichten en sturen van een geheel nieuwe hogeschool: VLEKHO. Als samenstellers hadden wij vanaf de aanvang dan ook geenszins de bedoeling om ons te beperken tot de onderzoeksdomeinen die Wilfried Janssens na aan het hart liggen, waarbinnen hij actief was en waarover hij doceerde en publiceerde, zoals het bankwezen, Voltaire, HR-management en onderwijspolitiek. Veeleer wilden we hem een staalkaart bieden van de output die op het ogenblik van de totstandkoming van dit boek gegenereerd werd in de schoot van zijn VLEKHO

Business communication --- Economics --- Language and languages --- Literature, Modern --- 808:658 --- bedrijfskunde --- hoger onderwijs --- taalkunde --- Academic collection --- 378 --- 658 --- 800 --- 82 --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Administrative communication --- Communication, Administrative --- Communication, Business --- Communication, Industrial --- Industrial communication --- 378 Hoger onderwijs. Universitair onderwijs --(algemeen) --- Hoger onderwijs. Universitair onderwijs --(algemeen) --- 800 Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek --- Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek --- History and criticism --- Het effectieve gebruik van de taal in de bedrijfskunde --- Hoger onderwijs. Universitair onderwijs --- Bedrijfskunde --- Taalkunde --- Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Business management --- Janssens, Wilfried --- Algemene literatuurwetenschap. --- Bedrijfskunde. --- Business communication. --- Economics. --- Language and languages. --- Letterkunde. --- Linguïstiek. --- Management. --- Marketing. --- Taalkunde. --- History and criticism. --- Literature [Modern ]

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This book uses diaries written by ordinary British people over the past two centuries to examine and explain the nature and extent of everyday mobilities, such as travel to school, to work, to shop or to visit friends, and to explore the meanings attached to these mobilities. After a critical evaluation of diary writing, the ways in which mobility changed over time, interacted with new forms of transport technology, and varied from place to place are examined. Further chapters focus on the roles of family and life course, gender, income and class, and journey purpose in shaping mobilities, including immobility. It is argued that easy and frequent everyday mobilities were experienced by most of the diarists studied, that travellers could exercise their own agency to adapt easily to new forms of transport technology, but that factors such as gender, class, and location also created significant mobility inequalities. Colin G. Pooley is Emeritus Professor of Social and Historical Geography in the Environment Centre and the Centre for Mobilities Studies (CeMoRe), Lancaster University, UK. His research focuses on the social geography of Britain and continental Europe since circa 1800, with recent projects focused on residential migration, travel to work, everyday mobilities and sustainable transport. Marilyn E. Pooley is an Historical Geographer. She was formerly a Teaching Associate in the Environment Centre at Lancaster University, UK, and in retirement is researching (with Colin Pooley) everyday mobility in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain using life writing. .

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