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The Critique of Work in Modern French Thought : From Charles Fourier to Guy Debord
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ISBN: 3030125866 3030125858 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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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.


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Autour de l'extrême littéraire
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ISBN: 1443844292 9781443844291 1299644899 9781299644892 9781443841634 1443841633 Year: 2012 Publisher: Newcastle Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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The extreme is an essential aspect of contemporary experience. Thrill-seekers spend the weekend in the search of the adrenaline rush of ""extreme sports"". In the political arena, the world has begun to rediscover the split between the ""extreme"" left and th


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The situationist international : a critical handbook
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ISBN: 9781786805454 Year: 2020 Publisher: London : Pluto Press,

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The Situationist International
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ISBN: 1786805456 9780745338897 9780745338897 0745338909 0745338895 0745338909 0745338895 9780745338903 1786805448 1786805464 9780745338903 9781786805447 9781786805454 9781786805461 Year: 2020 Publisher: London

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Formed amidst the incendiary violence and political turmoil of the 1960s, beyond the barricades, the Situationist International (SI) remains to this day influential in anti-capitalist cultural, political and philosophical debates. Looking at philosophy, sociology, critical theory, art, architecture and literature, The Situationist International is an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the SI and its thought. Leading thinkers analyse the SI's interdisciplinary challenges, its roots in the artistic avant-garde and the traditional workers' movements, its engagement with the problems of postcolonialism and issues of gender and sexuality. Including contributions from key thinkers, including Anselm Jappe and Michael Lowy, as well as new and upcoming scholars, The Situationist International unpacks the complexity of a group that has come to define radical politics and culture in the postwar period.


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The Critique of Work in Modern French Thought
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ISBN: 9783030125868 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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Ne travaillez jamais : la critique du travail en France de Charles Fourier à Guy Debord
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ISBN: 9782490831012 2490831011 Year: 2019 Publisher: Albi : Crise & critique,

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Qu’est-ce que le travail ? Pourquoi travaillons-nous ? Depuis des temps immémoriaux, les réponses à ces questions, au sein de la gauche comme de la droite, ont été que le travail est à la fois une nécessité naturelle et, l’exploitation en moins, un bien social. On peut critiquer la manière dont il est géré, comment il est indemnisé et qui en profite le plus, mais jamais le travail lui-même, jamais le travail en tant que tel. Dans ce livre, Hemmens cherche à remettre en cause ces idées reçues. En s’appuyant sur le courant de la critique de la valeur issu de la théorie critique marxienne, l’auteur démontre que le capitalisme et sa crise finale ne peuvent être correctement compris que sous l’angle du caractère historiquement spécifique et socialement destructeur du travail. C’est dans ce contexte qu’il se livre à une analyse critique détaillée de la riche histoire des penseurs français qui, au cours des deux derniers siècles, ont contesté frontalement la forme travail : du socialiste utopique Charles Fourier (1772-1837), qui a appelé à l’abolition de la séparation entre le travail et le jeu, au gendre rétif de Marx, Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), qui a appelé au droit à la paresse (1880) ; du père du surréalisme, André Breton (1896-1966), qui réclame une « guerre contre le travail », à bien sûr, Guy Debord (1931-1994), auteur du fameux graffiti, « Ne travaillez jamais ». Ce livre sera un point de référence crucial pour les débats contemporains sur le travail et ses origines.


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Debord, Guy
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ISBN: 1529745756 Year: 2020 Publisher: London : SAGE Publications Ltd.,

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Guy Debord (1931-1994) was the central figure of the Situationist International (SI), a Marxian revolutionary organisation focused in France that emerged out of the European artistic avant-garde and antiauthoritarian, anticapitalist movements of the postwar period (Hussey, 2001). Debord was a founding member of the group, the editor of its journal, Internationale Situationniste, as well as a writer, filmmaker, and critical social theorist. He is perhaps best known as the author of The Society of the Spectacle, first published in French in 1967, and, along with the SI, is often credited with having played a significant role in the radicalisation of the student movement in France, which led to a series of occupations, strikes, and protests that shook France in the spring of 1968. Debord drew ...


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Manifeste contre le travail. suivi de, Critique du travail et émancipation sociale. Terreur du travail et critique du travail
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ISBN: 9782490831050 2490831054 Year: 2020 Publisher: 14-Condé-sur-Noireau: Albi: Impr. Corlet, Crise & critique,

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Il y a cent soixante-dix ans, Marx affirmait la nécessaire sortie du capitalisme par le moyen de la lutte des classes. Cent vingt ans plus tard, l’Internationale situationniste, emmenée par Guy Debord et Raoul Vaneigem, élargissait la définition du prolétariat et mettait en cause la société du travail et de la consommation. Le Manifeste contre le travail reprend la critique là où les situationnistes l’avaient arrêtée. Dans une société obsédée par la « valeur travail » et l’effroi que suscite sa disparition, ce petit livre-manifeste reprend le combat contre la transformation de l’individu en « ressource humaine ». Il rappelle qu’une émancipation digne de ce nom ne peut faire l’économie d’une critique radicale du travail. Autrement dit, en rupture avec l’anticapitalisme tronqué de la gauche du capital, il ne s’agit pas de libérer le travail, mais de se libérer du travail.

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