Labor of Fire: The Ontology of Labor between Economy and Culture

by Bruno Gulli

Overview

In Labor of Fire, Bruno Gullì offers a timely and much needed re-examination of the concept of labor. Distinguishing between "productive labor" (working for money or subsistence) and "living labor" (working for artistic creation), Gullì convincingly argues for a definition of work that recognizes the importance of artistic and social creativity to our definition of labor and the self.

Gullì lays the groundwork for his book by offering a critique of productive labor, and then maps out his productive/living labor distinction in detail, reviewing the work of Marx and others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592131143
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	12/28/2005
Series:	Labor In Crisis
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	316 KB

About the Author

Bruno Gullì teaches philosophy at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus and at Kingsborough Community College.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Ontology of Labor: Problems of the Relationship between Philosophy and Political EconomyREMARK: The Productive Power of Capital2. On the Difference between Living Labor and Productive LaborREMARK: 1. Dialectic and metaphysicsREMARK: 2. Vulgar metaphysics and poetic metaphysics3. Radicalizing the Ontology of Labor: Institution and Utopia4. The Solitude of Labor: On the Relationship between Creative Labor and Artistic ProductionNotesBibliographyIndex

What People are Saying About This

Michael Hardt

My sense is that Gullì's work (along with that of a few other young scholars) will renew once again the Marxist tradition. This will not be a scientific Marxism or a humanist Marxism or a structuralist Marxism. It is rather a very philosophical approach to Marx that is nonetheless centered on the concept of labor and its power of social transformation.