Work and the Precarisation of Existence

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ID2397816
AutoresJ P Deranty (0000-0003-3860-4371, Macquarie University, autor correspondente), Jean-Philippe Deranty (Macquarie University)
Ano2008
Volume11
Fascículo4
Páginas443-463
Data de publicação2008-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1368431008097011
OpenAlexW2146450940
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas31
Referências citadas19

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 main activity is the clinical, psychiatric study of pathologies linked to work. However, in the course of his career, Dejours has greatly extended this initial clinical interest, and by integrating insights from philosophy and other social sciences, has developed a highly sophisticated and consistent theoretical model of work. Starting from a narrow psychopathological focus, Dejours has gradually developed a full-blown theoretical defence of the centrality of work. The article outlines the main features of Dejours' metapsychological model, and the structuring role played by work in his theory of subjective identity. This allows us to outline the originality of his approach by comparison with some of the most significant current accounts of the impact of transformations of work and employment conditions upon individuals and societies, notably Honneth, Castel and Sennett

Aesthetics · Centrality · Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Identity (music) · Originality · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Structuring · Work (physics) · Computer Science · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism