Dreamwork – Why All Work Is Imaginary : Why All Work Is Imaginary

Name: Dreamwork – Why All Work Is Imaginary
Brand: Reaktion Books
SKU: 9781789147568
Price: 3600 KES
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ISBN: 9781789147568

by Steven Connor

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1789147565

ISBN-13 9781789147568

Publisher Reaktion Books

Imprint Reaktion Books

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 1st, 2023

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 484 grams

Dimensions 14.70 x 22.50 x 2.70 cms

Product Classification: Social & political philosophy Sociology: work & labour Sociology: work and labour Social and political philosophy

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Analyses the ideas, dreams, dreads and ideals we have about work.

Dreamwork is a book about the ideas, dreams, dreads and ideals we have regarding work. Its central argument is that, although we depend on the idea of work for our identity as humans, we feel we must disguise from ourselves the fact that we do not know what work is. There is no example of work that nobody might under some circumstances do for fun. All work is imaginary – which is not to say that it is simply illusory, but rather that, in order to count as work, it must be imagined to be work; so that a large part of what we mean by working is this work of imagining. Work is therefore essentially mystical – just the opposite of what it is taken to be. Dreamwork looks in turn at worries about whether or not work is hard; the importance of places of work; the meanings of hobbies, holidays and sabbaths; and the history of dreams of redeeming work.

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