Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Simone Weil on Work, Oppression, and Emancipation: Critical Perspectives

Simone Weil on Work, Oppression, and Emancipation: Critical Perspectives

Bourgault, Sophie
Devette, Pascale
Bernard, Milan

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 28, 2026

ISBN10: 3032266033
ISBN13: 9783032266033
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Oct 28 2026
Pages: 268
Language: English
This book makes a powerful case for returning to Simone Weil to reflect on the philosophy of work today. In the age of the Anthropocene, of AI, of automation, and of the crisis of meaning, this volume argues that we must think of work as something that is much more than an economic activity done for a wage. The problem of work, this volume argues, is thoroughly political. The book examines the meaning and organization of labour and the forms of oppression and suffering it can entail, from 1930s factories to the jobs of our contemporary world. It also explores the modes of attention and emancipation that are possible at work. Placing Weil in conversation with other thinkers (e.g. Marx, Fanon, Tronti, Bataille, Graeber), contributors analyze the challenges and possibilities of transforming work into a dignified activity.

Also in

General Political Science

View All