Work and Creativity
A Philosophical Study from Creation to Postmodernity
1st Edition
Published on 31. December 2019
146 pages
978-1-9787-9670-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-9787-9670-6 (9781978796706)
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Book
12/2019
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
€114.60
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Person
André LaCocque is professor emeritus of Hebrew Bible at Chicago Theological Seminary.
Content
Part One
What about the J Tradition?
The Bible and Cuneiform Texts: A Primary Stage of Intertextuality
What Do Philosophers Say?
First Excursus: The General and the Particular
The Garden Raises the Problem of Space and, Subsidiarily, of Evil
Homo Faber
Home and Exile: Encountering the Other
Once More on Production
Adam Is Property Tenant; Consumption
The Relation with God
Work Mechanized
Today's "Surplus Value"
Entelechy
Part Two
Introduction
A Response to Sigmund Freud
On Freud's Theory of Phylogenesis
Libido or Aedificatio?
Work as Knowledge
Work, Knowledge, and Death
Second Excursus: Ernest Becker
Work and Civilization: Morality and Guilt
Work and Worldview
Third Excursus: The Commandment
Synopsis
Part Three
For a Dialectical Understanding
Peripeteia
A Concluding Reflection on Dialectical Work and Creativity
The Dialectic Is Dialogical
The Enigmatic (Dialectic) Relationship of Israel and Land
On Lex Talionis
What about the J Tradition?
The Bible and Cuneiform Texts: A Primary Stage of Intertextuality
What Do Philosophers Say?
First Excursus: The General and the Particular
The Garden Raises the Problem of Space and, Subsidiarily, of Evil
Homo Faber
Home and Exile: Encountering the Other
Once More on Production
Adam Is Property Tenant; Consumption
The Relation with God
Work Mechanized
Today's "Surplus Value"
Entelechy
Part Two
Introduction
A Response to Sigmund Freud
On Freud's Theory of Phylogenesis
Libido or Aedificatio?
Work as Knowledge
Work, Knowledge, and Death
Second Excursus: Ernest Becker
Work and Civilization: Morality and Guilt
Work and Worldview
Third Excursus: The Commandment
Synopsis
Part Three
For a Dialectical Understanding
Peripeteia
A Concluding Reflection on Dialectical Work and Creativity
The Dialectic Is Dialogical
The Enigmatic (Dialectic) Relationship of Israel and Land
On Lex Talionis
