MARCUSE AND THE UTOPIA OF LABOUR ABOLITION
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https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v10i4.49718Keywords:
Marcuse, Marx, Labour, Liberation, Activity for the sake of activityAbstract
The paper reconstructs the fundamental moments of Marcusian thought on the liberation of labour – from the early essay Über die philosophischen Grundlagen des Arbeitsbegriff to Zur Kritik des Hedonismus, till Eros and Civilisation and An Essay on Liberation. Marcuse tries, much more clearly than Marx, to overcome the dualism of the realm of necessity and the realm of freedom, in order to introduce the element of freedom and a sort of playful happiness into the very world of production. Liberation is conceived in terms of an “abolition” of the alienated labour, but at the same time as a mitigation of the weight of the purposeful or instrumental activities in favour of non-instrumental activities.
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2019-12-16
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Ferruccio Andolfi. (2019). MARCUSE AND THE UTOPIA OF LABOUR ABOLITION. Problemata: International Journal of Philosophy, 10(4), 154-165. https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v10i4.49718
