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Labor of fire : the ontology of labor between economy and culture
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ISBN: 1592131131 1592131123 9786611093853 1281093858 159213114X Year: 2005 Publisher: Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press,

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In Labor of Fire, Bruno Gullì offers a timely and much needed re-examination of the concept of labor. Distinguishing between ""productive labor"" (working for money or subsistence) and ""living labor"" (working for artistic creation), Gullì convincingly argues for a definition of work that recognizes the importance of artistic and social creativity to our definition of labor and the self. Gullì lays the groundwork for his book by offering a critique of productive labor, and then maps out his productive/living labor distinction in detail, reviewing the work of Marx and other


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Earthly plenitudes : a study on sovereignty and labor
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ISBN: 1282423673 9786612423673 1592139817 Year: 2010 Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press,

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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

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