Work and Creativity

A Philosophical Study from Creation to Postmodernity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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The Bible highly praises human creativity. In fact, work belongs to Adam’s very creation, homo faber in the image of deus faber (Gen. 2:15). Human production is nevertheless seen in the Bible as imbued with an ambiguous value. In Work and Creativity, André LaCocque reflects on the biblical understanding of labor, juxtaposing texts from the book of Genesis with the conceptions of work of psychoanalysts and philosophers such as Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx, and proposing a dialectical approach to human work and creativity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-12-31
Mått162 x 228 x 18 mm
Vikt390 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor146
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781978708976

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Part OneWhat about the J Tradition?The Bible and Cuneiform Texts: A Primary Stage of IntertextualityWhat Do Philosophers Say?First Excursus: The General and the ParticularThe Garden Raises the Problem of Space and, Subsidiarily, of EvilHomo FaberHome and Exile: Encountering the OtherOnce More on ProductionAdam Is Property Tenant; ConsumptionThe Relation with GodWork MechanizedToday’s “Surplus Value”EntelechyPart TwoIntroductionA Response to Sigmund FreudOn Freud’s Theory of PhylogenesisLibido or Aedificatio?Work as KnowledgeWork, Knowledge, and DeathSecond Excursus: Ernest BeckerWork and Civilization: Morality and GuiltWork and WorldviewThird Excursus: The CommandmentSynopsisPart ThreeFor a Dialectical UnderstandingPeripeteiaA Concluding Reflection on Dialectical Work and CreativityThe Dialectic Is DialogicalThe Enigmatic (Dialectic) Relationship of Israel and LandOn Lex Talionis