2 ECTS, Lectures:

The centrality of work for social philosophy: Adam Smith, Hegel and Marx.

14.1
lecture 1. Adam Smith on the Division of Labour
Main reading
Adam Smith, extract from The Wealth of Nations, Volume 1, Book 1, chs 1-2. [It said chs. 1-8 earlier, which is fine as well]
Supplementary reading
Gerald Doppelt, ‘Technology and the Humanization of Work’, in Moral Rights at Work…pp 10-17.

15.1
lecture 2 Hegel on work, need and ethical life
 Main reading
G.W.F. Hegel, extracts from Philosophy of Right, #189-207; 230-261
Supplementary reading
Axel Honneth, “Work and Recognition: A Redefinition,” in H.-C. Schmidt am Busch and C. Zurn eds, The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, pp. 223-240.

16.1
lecture 3. Marx on alienated labour
Main reading
Karl Marx, extract from ‘Excerpts from James Mill’s Elements of Political Economy’, in Marx, Early Writings, London, Penguin, 1974, pp. 274-278.
Karl Marx, extracts from Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, pp. 322-334, 358-374 (on alienation).
Supplementary reading
Sean Sayers, ‘The Concept of Labor: Marx and his Critics’, Science & Society, 71, 4, 2007, 431-454. (Or Emmanuel's recent paper on the topic)

3 ECTS

additional participation in the workshop "Worries about work" 21.1, and a study diary of the day's presentations.

For 5 ECTS,

further essay based on further readings:

Topic 4

Work and Praxis in Ricoeur’s Philosophical Anthropology
Main reading
Paul Ricoeur, ‘Work and the Word’, in Ricoeur, History and Truth, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1955, 197-219.
Supplementary reading
Paul Ricoeur, ‘Action, Story and History: On Re-reading The Human Condition’, Salmagundi, 60, Spring-Summer 1983, 60-72.

Topic 5

Arendt on Labour, Work and Action
Main reading
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1958.
Supplementary reading
Jeff Malpas, ‘The Dualities of Work’, Philosophy Today, 49:3, 2005, 256-263.

Topic 6

Habermas on Labour and Interaction
Main reading
Jürgen Habermas, ‘Labour and Interaction: Remarks on Hegel’s Jena Philosophy of Mind’, in Habermas, Theory and Practice, London, Heinemann, ch4, pp 142-169.
Supplementary reading
Jürgen Habermas, ‘The New Obscurity: The Crisis of the Welfare State and the Exhaustion of Utopian Energies’, in Habermas, The New Conservatism, Cambridge, Polity, 1989, pp. 48-69.

For registrated participants, the readings available from Moodle.

Participation in the lectures plus a study diary

Readings already available from Moodle. The course code and self-enrolment key: work2015.