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The Return of Work in Critical Theory: Self, Society, Politics
ISBN: 9780231547185
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Work -- Psychological aspects; Critical theory;

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.

Christophe Dejours (MD, Paris V-Sorbonne) is Chair and Professor of Psychoanalysis, Health, and Work at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. He is the author of many books on psychoanalysis, psychosomatics, pathologies of modern work, and the social impact of work, including Travail: Usure Mentale (Bayard, 2015), (with Isabelle Gernet) Psychopathologie du Travail (Elsevier, 2016), and Travail Vivant (Payot, 2013). He is founding editor of the journal Travailler: Revue internationale de Psychopathologie et de Psychodynamique du Travail. Deranty Jean-Philippe :

Jean-Philippe Deranty (PhD, Philosophy, Paris IV-Sorbonne) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Beyond Communication. A Critical Study of Axel Honneth's Social Philosophy (Brill, 2009) and (co-edited with Katia Genel) Recognition versus Disagreement: A Critical Encounter on the Politics of Freedom, Equality and Identity (Columbia, 2016). He has guest-edited a special issue of the journal Travailler (2013) on philosophy and work and is chief editor of the journal Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory .Renault Emmanuel :

Emmanuel Renault (PhD, Philosophy, Burgundy) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris X (Nanterre). He is the author of L'Expérience de l'Injustice: Reconnaissance et Clinique de l'Injustice (La Découverte, 2004, English translation under contract at Columbia), Souffrance Sociales: Sociologie, Psychologie et Politique (La Découverte, 2008), and (with Gerard Dumenil and Michael Lowy) Lire Marx (PUF, 2014), among other titles.Smith Nicholas H. :

Nicholas H. Smith (PhD, Philosophy, Glasgow) is Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Charles Taylor: Meaning, Morals and Modernity (Polity, 2002) and (co-edited with Jean-Philippe Deranty) New Philosophies of Labour: Work and the Social Bond (Brill, 2012). He has also guest-edited special issues of the journals Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie (2012) and Revue Internationale de Philosophie (2016) on the theme of philosophy and work.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.