The Ideology of Work : Theoretical Humanism, Work and Labour /

In On the Reproduction of Capitalism , Louis Althusser cited an appendix which, it seems, remains lost or was never completed. This appendix was titled 'the Ideology of Work'. This book takes inspiration from this appendix, to think about what is at stake for both Marxism and sociology in...

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Main Author: Mercer, Samuel J.R. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Series: Historical Materialism Book Series ; 311.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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Call Number: HX542

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Preliminary Material /
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  • Copyright Page /
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  • Chapter 1 The Humanist Controversy /
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  • Chapter 2 The Concept of 'Labour' in Marx's Critique of Political Economy /
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  • Chapter 3 'Social Labour' and the Critique of Work in Marxist Theory /
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  • Chapter 4 Theoretical Humanism and the Post-work Imaginary /
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  • Chapter 5 Social Reproduction and Theoretical Anti-humanism /
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  • Chapter 6 'Making' History: The Concept of Labour and the Anthropocene Discourse /
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  • Conclusion Marxism in Sociology /
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  • Back Matter
  • References /
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