Christophe Dejours, Jean-Philippe Deranty (Critical Horizons Book Review Editor), Emmanuel Renault

Gebundenes Buch

The Return of Work in Critical Theory

Self, Society, Politics

Beschreibung

This book presents a new account of the significance and the human costs of work. A collaboration between experts in philosophy, social theory, and clinical psychology, it brings together empirical research with incisive analysis of work's political stakes to present a diagnosis of the pathologies of contemporary work and propose powerful remedies.

Autor

Christophe Dejours is professor of psychoanalysis, health, and work at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. His many books include Souffrance en France. La banalisation de l¿injustice sociale, 7th ed. (2007) and Travail Vivant, 2 vols. (2009). Jean-Philippe Deranty is associate professor of philosophy at Macquarie University. He is the author of Beyond Communication: A Critical Study of Axel Honneth¿s Social Philosophy (2009) and the editor of several collections on critical theory and work. Emmanuel Renault is professor of philosophy at University of Paris-Nanterre. He has published several books on the tradition of critical theory, including Social Suffering: Sociology, Psychology, Politics (2017). Nicholas H. Smith is professor of philosophy at Macquarie University. He is the author of Strong Hermeneutics (1997) and Charles Taylor (2002) and has edited several collections on the philosophy of work.

Produktdetails

• New Directions in Critical Theory
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9780231187282
• ISBN-10: 0231187289
• Artikelnr.: 50210546