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The labour of spirit : an essay on Max Weber
- Title
- The labour of spirit : an essay on Max Weber / Massimo Cacciari ; translated by Matteo Mandarini.
- Author
- Cacciari, Massimo
- Publication
- London : Seagull Books, 2025.
- ©2025
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Mandarini, Matteo
- Description
- viii, 71 pages; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- The Italian list
- Uniform Title
- Lavoro dello spirito. English
- Alternative Title
- Lavoro dello spirito.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Translations.
- Essays.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Italian.
- Call Number
- JFE 26-579
- ISBN
- 9781803095134
- 180309513X
- 9781803095141
- 1803095148
- LCCN
- CIPO000229754
- OCLC
- 1521234691
- Author
- Cacciari, Massimo, author.
- Title
- The labour of spirit : an essay on Max Weber / Massimo Cacciari ; translated by Matteo Mandarini.
- Publisher
- London : Seagull Books, 2025.
- Copyright Date
- ©2025
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The Italian list
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Summary
- "A provocative examination of the fate of autonomous, creative labor under capitalism. Between 1917 and 1919, Max Weber delivered two lectures titled Die geistige Arbeit als Beruf, which we might translate as The Labour of Spirit as Vocation. This weighty formula represented the hope that animated the world of bourgeois culture from the likes of Kant, Goethe, Schiller, Fichte, and Hegel and would later form the earliest threads of revolutionary thought from Feuerbach and Marx. The "labor of spirit" is creative, autonomous labor--human labor understood in its fully effectual power. To press for its realization is to liberate all activity from the condition of commanded or alienated work. But the dissolution of the labor of spirit into the capitalist form of production, into the universal machinism that swallows up that science which remains the true engine of development, also ends up delegitimating political authority, whose own foundation lies in the "promise of liberation." Massimo Cacciari takes up old questions and confronts them anew: Is the "iron cage" fated to imprison that "labor of spirit" that is political praxis? Will the spirit of capitalism end up completely undermining the space of the political? Or are relations between science and politics still thinkable that might free us from our "debt" as we proceed without means or ends within the techno-economic system?"--Amazon.ca.
- Language
- Translated from the Italian.
- Added Author
- Mandarini, Matteo, translator.
- Other Standard Identifier
- CIPO000229754
- Research Call Number
- JFE 26-579