Precarity and Loss

Synopsis

The book is devoted, generally, to social andpolitical interdependencies of life and work, the interdependencies in whichthe ideas of loss and deprivation are the founding incentives of theprecariousness of the position and the status of human subject. Theanthropological idea of homo faber, ofman the artificer, which existentially links man with work has been complicatedby the rendition of the effects of work as properties which, in what HannahArendt calls "the rise of the social", have become inherently uncertain and perishable. Loss ofproperty in the economic sense, along with the loss of properties inepistemological terms have thus become a crucial measure of precarity anddissociated it from what Judith Butlercalls "the organization andprotection of bodily needs". The book offers a proposition of multidisciplinaryreading of the origins and constructions of "fear of loss" as a constitutivetrait of what may be called the "economization" of human condition, of ourpositioning of "life" away from its biological, or bodily, demands, ofascribing to it certain properties whose factual uncertainty. The book willconsists of an "Introduction" clarifying the senses in which the categories ofprecarity and loss are treated and discussed in different contexts. Its mainbody will consist of five chapters approaching the questions of precarity andloss from the perspective of a number of categories facilitating a betterunderstanding and readability of the complex networks within which somecertainty, frequently illusory, is projected upon otherwise fluid and uncertainflows of the real.

Copyright:

2017

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783658134150

Publisher:

Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden

Date of Addition:

03/30/17

Copyrighted By:

Springer

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Sociology

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