J P Deranty
Biographic Data
| ID | 37582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J P Deranty |
| GIVEN NAMES | J P |
| FAMILY NAME | Deranty |
| SIGNATURE | DERANTY J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3860-4371 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Making AI Work
In 1930, critical theorist Max Horkheimer described modern society as a skyscraper, in which each level represents a different social layer (1978, 66–67). Horkheimer explained that the top of the skyscraper is occupied by the capitalists, right below them are wealthy landowners and those with powerful jobs, followed by professionals like professors and engineers. Further down the tower are craftsmen, grocers, and farmers. Down the bottom, “the un…
“Working bodies
On the essay in a time of GenAI
On the essay in a time of GenAI
Artificial intelligence and work
This review seeks to present a comprehensive picture of recent discussions in the social sciences of the anticipated impact of AI on the world of work. Issues covered include: technological unemployment, algorithmic management, platform work and the politics of AI work. The review identifies the major disciplinary and methodological perspectives on AI’s impact on work, and the obstacles they face in making predictions. Two parameters influencing …
Debating a Post-Work Future
The book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of philosophical, social-scientific, and humanistic arguments about the design and desirability of "post-work" society. Its purpose is to clarify the concepts and theories that inform this debate by exploring the diversity of arguments from a wide range of perspectives about the meaning of a "post-work" future. The book's 12 chapters were written exclusively for the volume by an international t…
Desubstantializing the critique of forms of life
Rahel Jaeggi’s Critique of Forms of Life represents a welcome new development in critical social thought. It aims to overcome the ‘liberal abstinence’, which forbids criticizing the ethical fabric of social life, and proposes to connect normative evaluation with a serious social-ontological model of ‘forms of life’. In this article we argue, however, that Jaeggi’s ontological characterization of the concept of form of life is problematic in ways …
La non-réception du concept hégélien de reconnaissance chez les Jeunes hégéliens
This essay underscores the relevance of young Hegelianism by analyzing the reception of the Hegelian system by its contemporaries. Starting from the example of the concept of recognition, it seeks to explain why this concept, which is held today for one of Hegel’s foremost theoretical contributions, went unnoticed or was not deemed worthy of interest among authors who yet knew that system well. The article first surveys the meanings of the term A…
Does work have a future? The need for new meanings and new valuings of work
This introduction to the special section “Does Work Have a Future?” begins by reviewing the main ways work stands at the crossroads today. We identify three core disputes with the potential to disrupt the future of work but which also harbor resources for affirmative futures of work: the precariousness of work and lives under existing economic arrangements; the emergence of care work as a source of social and environmental value; and technologica…
Post-work society as an oxymoron
In recent years, theorists have contended that we should move to a mode of social organisation where work and the values attached to it are no longer central, a 'post-work society'. For these theorists, the modern ideology of work is intrinsically unjust, even irrational and no longer suited to the challenges of our time. The article presents an alternative response to the problems of work and employment. Rather than moving to a 'post-work' socie…
Feuerbach, Ludwig
Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872) is one of the most influential thinkers in the Western tradition of the philosophy of religion. He is particularly well known for having developed the first modern “projection‐theory” of religious belief. This theory is complex and contains several psychological and cultural layers. It directly anticipates later famous diagnostic criticisms of religion, such as those by Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
Democratizing workplaces from below
In this chapter, Jean-Philippe Deranty and Emmanuel Renault offer a critical analysis of contemporary republicanism and its potential for democratizing work relations. Their complaint is that republicans have so far failed to address two pivotal aspects of work activity—namely, the experiences arising from the cooperative performance of work tasks and the socio-political significance of work collectives—and have thus provided an incomplete ration…
L’impact psychodynamique
La déposition de Christophe Dejours lors du procès France Télécom a marqué les esprits. On peut en tracer l’impact jusque dans les termes du délibéré. Cet article tente de cerner ce qui donne à la psychodynamique du travail sa capacité de toucher les gens, de faire qu’ils se reconnaissent intellectuellement et affectivement dans ses diagnostics et ses schémas explicatifs. L’hypothèse défendue est que cette force de conviction provient de son ancr…
The Body of Spirit
This paper attempts to show that an expansive normative vision can be drawn from Hegel's texts, one whose scope significantly exceeds the anthropocentric model presented in the ‘objective spirit’ parts of his system. This expansion of normativity is linked to an expansive vision of relationality underpinning Hegel's model of ‘concrete freedom’. In order to put into sharper relief the links between expansive relationality and normativity, the late…
Reconnaissance ou mésentente ?
Axel Honneth a élaboré une critique de la société moderne au prisme du concept de reconnaissance. Jacques Rancière a construit une théorie de la politique moderne à partir du concept de mésentente. Ils s’attachent tous deux à analyser les logiques d’exclusion et de domination qui structurent les sociétés contemporaines. Dans un précieux dialogue, les deux philosophes explorent les affinités et les tensions entre leurs approches respectives. Ils c…
Redistribuição e reconhecimento do ponto de vista da igualdade real
Neste artigo, meu objetivo é enfrentar os problemas relacionados à redistribuição por meio de uma apropriação crítica do paradigma distributivo. Vou partir dos escritos de dois dos mais importantes críticos do paradigma distributivo na filosofia política contemporânea, Elizabeth Anderson e Axel Honneth, cujos argumentos se sobrepõem de várias maneiras. A concepção de igualdade democrática ou relacional de Anderson partilha uma série de elementos …
Feuerbach, Ludwig (1804–1872)
German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872) is now a relatively obscure figure and yet he played a key role in the German intellectual scene in the middle of the nineteenth century. He received his training from Hegel but moved away from Hegel's absolute idealism early on. In his mature work he sought to reuse aspects of the Hegelian method to propose a new, materialist theory of knowledge, and, most famously, of religious belief. He was a ma…
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Digital Distribution
This paper argues that Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility” provides a rich analytic framework for understanding how the many dimensions of aesthetic experience interact both with each other and with social and political life more broadly. The heart of that framework is a structural theory of the relation of six core aesthetic concepts. With Benjamin’s systematic analysis in hand, the paper advances an a…
The Return of Work in Critical Theory
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A Teoria Crítica entre Marx e Honneth
Neste artigo considerarei as principais objeções marxistas ao modelo de Honneth para uma Teoria Crítica da sociedade e também as objeções centrais de Honneth aos modelos inspirados em Marx. Depois tentarei esboçar uma reaproximação entre ambas posições ao mostrar como o conceito normativo de reconhecimento de Honneth não é oposto a argumentos funcionalistas, e sim que ele contém uma dimensão socioteórica: a ideia de que a reprodução social e a ev…
Lost Paradigm
This paper argues that for two decades, in a period extending between the years immediately preceding the Second World War and for more than ten years thereafter, the most signifi cant authors in French philosophy conducted their refl ections within a "work paradigm", that is, within a theoretical background in which work played the central, organizing role.The writings of Simone Weil and Merleau-Ponty's Structure of Behaviour (1938) are particul…
The great leveller
If we compare it with the fellow notion of liberty, equality has an ambivalent place in modern political thinking. Whilst it counts as one of the fundamental norms, many think that equality is valuable only as a way to realise some features of liberty. I take a historical perspective on this issue, and try to identify some of the pre-modern roots of such an ambivalent attitude towards equality. I do this by using Jacques Rancière’s political mode…
Doing justice to the past
In this article, we argue that the usual restriction of critical theory to ‘modern’ norms is subject to problems of coherence, historical accuracy and moral obligation. First, we illustrate how critical theory opposes itself to societies designated as pre-modern, through a summary of Honneth’s recognition theory. We then show how an over-emphasis on modernity’s normative novelty obscures counter-currents in ethical life that threaten the unity of…
Historical Objections to the Centrality of Work
The cruel poetics of Morrissey
Drawing on existential phenomenology, particularly Heidegger's analytic of Dasein, and combining it with a developmental perspective, the paper focuses on those moments of crisis, in which a self faces the question of its own truth, and in the process posits the conditions for disclosing key aspects about the world and society. Late adolescence and early adulthood are the 'ages of life' in which such possibility of disclosure occurs most eminentl…
Critique as social practice. Critical theory and social self-understanding
Critique as Social Practice first appeared in German in 2009, in the series of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Its English translation comes out in the recently launched collection
The Centrality of Work
This article briefly presents some of the main features of the notion of "centrality of work" within the framework of the "psychodynamic" approach to work developed by Christophe Dejours. The paper argues that we should distinguish between at least four separate but related ways in which work can be said to be central: psychologically, in terms of gender relations, social-politically and epistemically.Keywords: worksubjectivitypsychodynamicspolit…
Jacques Rancière’s Contribution to The Ethics of Recognition
Politicizing Honneth's Ethics of Recognition
This article argues that Axel Honneth's ethics of recognition offers a robust model for a renewed critical theory of society, provided that it does not shy away from its political dimensions. First, the ethics of recognition needs to clarify its political moment at the conceptual level to remain conceptually sustainable. This requires a clarification of the notion of identity in relation to the three spheres of recognition, and a clarification of…
Work as Transcendental Experience
This essay discusses four books recently published by Christophe Dejours with the aim of extracting their most significant social-theoretical and philosophical implications. The first two books are two contributions by Dejours in current debates and public policy initiatives in France through the application of his psychodynamic approach to work-related issues (work and violence; work and suicide). Even though these texts are shaped by the specif…
What Is Work? Key Insights From the Psychodynamics of Work
This article aims to present some of the main results of contemporary French psychodynamics of work. The writings of Christophe Dejours constitute the central references in this area. His psychoanalytical approach, which is initially concerned with the impact of contemporary work practices on individual health, has implications that go well beyond the narrow psycho-pathological interest. The most significant theoretical development to have come o…
Work and the Precarisation of Existence
This article aims to present a new perspective on contemporary debates about the transformations of work and employment, and their impacts on individuals and communities, by focusing on the writings of Christophe Dejours. Basically, the article attempts to show that Dejours' writings make a significant contribution to contemporary social theory. This might seem like an odd claim to make, since Dejours' main training was in psychoanalysis and his …
Work and the Politics of Misrecognition
Adorno's Other Son
Fichus published as a book the speech that Jacques Derrida delivered in Frankfurt in September 2001 in acceptance of the Theodor-W.-Adorno Prize. This little autobiographical text might seem to be of interest only for those who care about Derrida's person. Notably, it can be read as a surreptitious announcement by the philosopher of his imminent death. However, Derrida made this announcement through a complex discursive strategy that suggested a …
Historical Objections to the Centrality of Work
Injustice, Violence and Social Struggle. The Critical Potential of Axel Honneth's Theory of Recognition
Honneth's fundamental claim that the normativity of social orders can be found nowhere but in the very experience of those who suffer injustice leads, I argue, to a radical theory and critique of society, with the potential to provide an innovative theory of social movements and a valid alternative to political liberalism
Post-work society as an oxymoron
In recent years, theorists have contended that we should move to a mode of social organisation where work and the values attached to it are no longer central, a 'post-work society'. For these theorists, the modern ideology of work is intrinsically unjust, even irrational and no longer suited to the challenges of our time. The article presents an alternative response to the problems of work and employment. Rather than moving to a 'post-work' socie…
Travail et expérience de la domination dans le néolibéralisme contemporain
This paper seeks to study the contemporary forms of domination at and through work, by focusing on subjective experiences of work. Against the background of Marx's analysis of the manyfold nexus between social and political domination in general and domination at work, I begin by drawing in broad strokes the general picture of current experiences of work emerging from the contemporary French sociology and psychology of work. Related to this rich …
Witnessing the Inhuman
Much of twentieth-century continental philosophy has defined its task as "witnessing the inhuman." With this is meant, first of all, a critical diagnostic aiming to uncover the nihilism that brought the modern world into the abyss. The philosophical side of this critique is famously the deconstruction of metaphysics. But witnessing the inhuman also has a positive meaning: the imperative to move beyond the separation of the human and the inhuman f…
Critique Hope, Power
Critique as social practice. Critical theory and social self-understanding
Critique as Social Practice first appeared in German in 2009, in the series of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Its English translation comes out in the recently launched collection
La philosophie sociale entre sociologie et psychologie sociale
Cet article tente d'éclairer le rapport entre philosophie sociale et sciences sociales, en se demandant comment une philosophie sociale contemporaine doit traiter les questions relatives au travail. Le but, in fine , est de suggérer qu'en tentant de répondre à cette question spécifique on donne un éclairage intéressant sur des difficultés plus générales inhérentes au programme d'une philosophie sociale, notamment en ce qui concerne son rapport au…
Hegel’s Naturalism
(2012). Hegel’s Naturalism: Mind, Nature and the Final Ends of Life. Critical Horizons: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 275-287
Philosophie de l'histoire et théorie du parti chez Sartre et MerleauPonty
The article revisits the famous dispute between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty in the 1950s, which unfolded through texts such as Humanism and Terror, The Communists and Peace, and The Adventuresof Dialectic. The central question that divided the two philosophers concerned the position that non-communist intellectuals associated with the working class should take towards communist politicsand the Party. The response to this question engaged nothing les…
Democratic Aesthetics
Up until recently, Jacques Ranciere’s work seemed to be clearly divided into two separate periods, corresponding to distinct sets of questions. Th e fi rst period, starting with Althusser’s Lesson (1974) and culminating in Disagreement (1995) and the second edition of On the Borders of the Political (1998), was wholly dedicated to the political question and the defence of democratic politics. Th e years 1996–98 marked a turning point as Ranciere’…
The Loss of Nature in Axel Honneth's Social Philosophy. Rereading Mead with Merleau-Ponty
This paper analyses the model of interaction at the heart of Axel Honneth's social philosophy. It argues that inter action in his mature ethics of recognition has been reduced to intercourse between human persons and that the role of nature is now missing from it. The ethics of recognition takes into account neither the material dimensions of individual and social action, nor the normative meaning of non-human persons and natural environments. Th…
The “Son of Civil Society”
Lectures politiques et spéculatives des Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts
On a souvent réduit Feuerbach à n’être qu’un auteur de transition entre Hegel et Marx, dont la pensée est résumée par le seul terme d’‘‘ humanisme ’’. Pourtant, la conception de l’homme que propose Feuerbach s’appuie sur une théorie élaborée de la représentation, portant à la fois sur sa genèse et sur ses effets. Concernant spécialement la sensation, la religion et la philosophie, cette théorie s’efforce de définir leur articulation et esquisse a…
Ranciere and Contemporary Political Ontology
Rancière and Contemporary Political Ontology Jean-Philippe Deranty (bio) A striking feature of Jacques Rancière's oeuvre[1] is its strong unity. The many books he has written, covering a wide array of topics, make up one coherent conceptual world. This coherence stems from a fundamental intuition, of which all his books are the sophisticated exploration, in all its consequences and contradictions: the idea that equality is not an essence, a value…
Jacques Rancière’s Contribution to The Ethics of Recognition
Injustice, Violence and Social Struggle. The Critical Potential of Axel Honneth's Theory of Recognition
Honneth's fundamental claim that the normativity of social orders can be found nowhere but in the very experience of those who suffer injustice leads, I argue, to a radical theory and critique of society, with the potential to provide an innovative theory of social movements and a valid alternative to political liberalism
Critique Hope, Power
The Loss of Nature in Axel Honneth's Social Philosophy. Rereading Mead with Merleau-Ponty
This paper analyses the model of interaction at the heart of Axel Honneth's social philosophy. It argues that inter action in his mature ethics of recognition has been reduced to intercourse between human persons and that the role of nature is now missing from it. The ethics of recognition takes into account neither the material dimensions of individual and social action, nor the normative meaning of non-human persons and natural environments. Th…
Repressed Materiality
The origins of Axel Honneth's theory of recognition lie in his earlier project to correct the conceptual confusions and empirical shortcomings of historical material ism for the purpose of an adequate post-Habermasian critical social theory. Honneth proposed to accomplish this project, most strikingly, by reconnecting critical social theory with one of its repressed philosophical sources, namely anthropological materialism. In its mature shape, h…
Adorno's Other Son
Fichus published as a book the speech that Jacques Derrida delivered in Frankfurt in September 2001 in acceptance of the Theodor-W.-Adorno Prize. This little autobiographical text might seem to be of interest only for those who care about Derrida's person. Notably, it can be read as a surreptitious announcement by the philosopher of his imminent death. However, Derrida made this announcement through a complex discursive strategy that suggested a …
Democratic Aesthetics
Up until recently, Jacques Ranciere’s work seemed to be clearly divided into two separate periods, corresponding to distinct sets of questions. Th e fi rst period, starting with Althusser’s Lesson (1974) and culminating in Disagreement (1995) and the second edition of On the Borders of the Political (1998), was wholly dedicated to the political question and the defence of democratic politics. Th e years 1996–98 marked a turning point as Ranciere’…
Politicizing Honneth's Ethics of Recognition
This article argues that Axel Honneth's ethics of recognition offers a robust model for a renewed critical theory of society, provided that it does not shy away from its political dimensions. First, the ethics of recognition needs to clarify its political moment at the conceptual level to remain conceptually sustainable. This requires a clarification of the notion of identity in relation to the three spheres of recognition, and a clarification of…
Emmanuel Renault, Souffrances sociales
(2008). Emmanuel Renault, Souffrances sociales: sociologie, psychologie et politique. Critical Horizons: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 243-249
Witnessing the Inhuman
Much of twentieth-century continental philosophy has defined its task as "witnessing the inhuman." With this is meant, first of all, a critical diagnostic aiming to uncover the nihilism that brought the modern world into the abyss. The philosophical side of this critique is famously the deconstruction of metaphysics. But witnessing the inhuman also has a positive meaning: the imperative to move beyond the separation of the human and the inhuman f…
Work and the Precarisation of Existence
This article aims to present a new perspective on contemporary debates about the transformations of work and employment, and their impacts on individuals and communities, by focusing on the writings of Christophe Dejours. Basically, the article attempts to show that Dejours' writings make a significant contribution to contemporary social theory. This might seem like an odd claim to make, since Dejours' main training was in psychoanalysis and his …
Philosophie de l'histoire et théorie du parti chez Sartre et MerleauPonty
The article revisits the famous dispute between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty in the 1950s, which unfolded through texts such as Humanism and Terror, The Communists and Peace, and The Adventuresof Dialectic. The central question that divided the two philosophers concerned the position that non-communist intellectuals associated with the working class should take towards communist politicsand the Party. The response to this question engaged nothing les…
What Is Work? Key Insights From the Psychodynamics of Work
This article aims to present some of the main results of contemporary French psychodynamics of work. The writings of Christophe Dejours constitute the central references in this area. His psychoanalytical approach, which is initially concerned with the impact of contemporary work practices on individual health, has implications that go well beyond the narrow psycho-pathological interest. The most significant theoretical development to have come o…
La reconnaissance hégélienne et ses enjeux pour la philosophie sociale et politique contemporaine
De récentes lectures de Hegel par d’importants philosophes américains ont insisté avant tout sur le lien entre reconnaissance et rationalité, et défini l’autonomie comme capacité à donner les raisons de ses actions. Prenant une distance critique envers ces lectures d’inspiration kantienne, l’article s’inspire de lectures allemandes de Hegel, culminant dans l’éthique de la reconnaissance d’Axel Honneth, qui insistent davantage sur la dimension gén…
The Centrality of Work
This article briefly presents some of the main features of the notion of "centrality of work" within the framework of the "psychodynamic" approach to work developed by Christophe Dejours. The paper argues that we should distinguish between at least four separate but related ways in which work can be said to be central: psychologically, in terms of gender relations, social-politically and epistemically.Keywords: worksubjectivitypsychodynamicspolit…
Work as Transcendental Experience
This essay discusses four books recently published by Christophe Dejours with the aim of extracting their most significant social-theoretical and philosophical implications. The first two books are two contributions by Dejours in current debates and public policy initiatives in France through the application of his psychodynamic approach to work-related issues (work and violence; work and suicide). Even though these texts are shaped by the specif…
Travail et expérience de la domination dans le néolibéralisme contemporain
This paper seeks to study the contemporary forms of domination at and through work, by focusing on subjective experiences of work. Against the background of Marx's analysis of the manyfold nexus between social and political domination in general and domination at work, I begin by drawing in broad strokes the general picture of current experiences of work emerging from the contemporary French sociology and psychology of work. Related to this rich …
Work and the Experience of Domination in Contemporary Neoliberalism
Work, Recognition and the Social Bond
The linguistic turn in post-Hegelian thought is a response to another way of carrying out the post-Hegelian agenda. Two developments in particular call for brief consideration: first, the transition from a production paradigm to a language paradigm; and second, the shift from the language paradigm to a recognition paradigm. Only when the basic features of the recognition paradigm are in view will we be able to see the opportunity it presents for …
Hegel’s Naturalism
(2012). Hegel’s Naturalism: Mind, Nature and the Final Ends of Life. Critical Horizons: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 275-287
Work and the Politics of Misrecognition
Cartographie critique des objections historicistes à la centralité du travail
Les objections à la centralité du travail prennent appui sur une présupposition historique massive et souvent non questionnée, selon laquelle le travail n’est devenu une institution centrale qu’avec l’avènement de la modernité capitaliste occidentale. Cet article pose les premiers jalons d’une cartographie critique de cet arrière-plan historiciste aux objections à la centralité du travail. L’identification des références constitutives de ce champ…
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