What's wrong with work? Alienation, labour, and meaning

工作出了什么问题？

• 批准号: 2122973
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Essex
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2122973
• 关键词: What; wrong; work; Alienation; labour

The majority of adults spend much of their lives engaged in some form of remunerative activity which they and others conceptualise as 'work'. In spite of this, the topic of work remains under-theorised in political philosophy, something this project will begin to rectify. To do this I focus on three issues: i) how work has been understood, ii) what might be wrong with work, and iii) how we could solve problems with work. I begin by assessing the different ways in which work has been understood, then turn to its treatment within contemporary political philosophy - particularly by Rawlsians, republicans, and feminists. To understand what might make work as it currently exists generally miserable rather than only problematic in marginal cases, I reinterpret the concept of alienation and use it as a framework to diagnose problems with work. After assessing the emancipatory potential of the solutions offered by contemporary and historical critics of work, I suggest new ways to make work less miserable.Schedule of workSection 1: How has work been understood? (Oct 2017 - Oct 18)Aims: I am halfway through my first year of doctoral research- by the end of this year I will have completed an opening chapter analysing the different ways in which work has been understood within political philosophy.Section 2: What's wrong with work? (Oct 18 - Oct 19)Aims: second chapter involving critical assessment of discussions of work in contemporary political philosophy, third chapter reconstructing and reinterpreting alienation, fourth chapter analysing work in light of this reconstruction.Section 3: Solving work's problems (Oct 19 onwards)Aims: fifth chapter analysing and critically assessing existing strategies to reduce the harms of work, final chapter on alternative strategies to reduce or end problems with work.

大多数成年人一生中的大部分时间都在从事某种形式的有偿活动，他们和其他人将这些活动概念化为“工作”。尽管如此，在政治哲学中，工作的主题仍然缺乏理论化，而这个项目将开始纠正这一点。为此，我关注三个问题：1)如何理解工作；2)工作可能有什么问题；3)我们如何用工作解决问题。我首先评估了人们理解作品的不同方式，然后转向当代政治哲学——尤其是罗尔斯派、共和党和女权主义者——对作品的处理。为了理解是什么让目前存在的工作变得普遍痛苦，而不仅仅是在边缘情况下出现问题，我重新解释了异化的概念，并将其作为诊断工作问题的框架。在评估了当代和历史上对工作的批评所提供的解决方案的解放潜力之后，我提出了一些让工作不那么痛苦的新方法。工作时间表第1节：如何理解工作？（2017年10月- 10月18日）目标：我第一年的博士研究已经进行了一半，到今年年底，我将完成第一章，分析在政治哲学中理解工作的不同方式。第二节：工作出了什么问题？（10月18日- 10月19日）目的：第二章涉及对当代政治哲学工作讨论的批判性评估，第三章重构和重新解释异化，第四章根据这种重构分析工作。第三部分：解决工作问题（10月19日起）目的：第五章分析和批判性地评估现有的策略，以减少工作的危害，最后一章关于减少或结束工作问题的替代策略。