Humanism and the sociology of post-work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2159873 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samuel J R Mercer (0000-0001-8660-7409, Liverpool Hope University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 686-706 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economy and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03085147.2021.1938881 |
| OpenAlex | W3176430893 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 28 |
This paper tracks and exposes the persistence of a 'theoretical humanism' through the contemporary sociological imagination of a social future beyond and without work. Building on the work of Louis Althusser [For Marx, Verso, 1996] and the critical appraisal of his anti-humanist epistemological intervention on the pages of Economy and Society, this paper argues that the critique of theoretical humanism reveals particular theoretical shortcomings and oversights in this emerging sociology of post-work. In both the definition of its epistemological boundaries and in its advocation of a politics reflective of these boundaries, this paper argues that the sociology of post-work reproduces an anthropological and moralistic ideological discourse of the working human subject, behind which it eclipses a material sociological analysis of the problems with work today
Epistemology · Humanism · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Work (physics · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Marxism and Critical Theory · Political Economy and Marxism · Law · Philosophy
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Theoretical poverty or the poverty of theory
From Bachelard to Althusser
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |