Work and Creativity

A Philosophical Study from Creation to Postmodernity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

The Bible highly praises human creativity. In fact, work belongs to Adam’s very creation, homo faber in the image of deus faber (Gen. 2:15). Human production is nevertheless seen in the Bible as imbued with an ambiguous value. In Work and Creativity, André LaCocque reflects on the biblical understanding of labor, juxtaposing texts from the book of Genesis with the conceptions of work of psychoanalysts and philosophers such as Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx, and proposing a dialectical approach to human work and creativity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-12-31
Mått:162 x 228 x 18 mm
Vikt:390 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:146
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781978708976

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion
Biblar inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

André LaCocque is professor emeritus of Hebrew Bible at Chicago Theological Seminary.

Recensioner i media

This is interdisciplinary work at its best and is bound to provoke in the reader fruitful reflection, application, and perhaps even labor.

Innehållsförteckning

Part OneWhat about the J Tradition?The Bible and Cuneiform Texts: A Primary Stage of IntertextualityWhat Do Philosophers Say?First Excursus: The General and the ParticularThe Garden Raises the Problem of Space and, Subsidiarily, of EvilHomo FaberHome and Exile: Encountering the OtherOnce More on ProductionAdam Is Property Tenant; ConsumptionThe Relation with GodWork MechanizedToday’s “Surplus Value”EntelechyPart TwoIntroductionA Response to Sigmund FreudOn Freud’s Theory of PhylogenesisLibido or Aedificatio?Work as KnowledgeWork, Knowledge, and DeathSecond Excursus: Ernest BeckerWork and Civilization: Morality and GuiltWork and WorldviewThird Excursus: The CommandmentSynopsisPart ThreeFor a Dialectical UnderstandingPeripeteiaA Concluding Reflection on Dialectical Work and CreativityThe Dialectic Is DialogicalThe Enigmatic (Dialectic) Relationship of Israel and LandOn Lex Talionis