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On the Nature, Limits, Meaning, and End of Work
Taschenbuch von Zachary Thomas Settle
Sprache: Englisch

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Articulating an Augustinian treatment of the nature, limits, meaning, and end of work, this volume will push Augustinian studies toward a more-detailed engagement with issues of political economy.

Zachary Settle argues that we inhabit a culture that insists that our life's meaning is bound up in our work; we experience constant pressures at work to be more efficient and productive; and we know the ways in which our work-structures contribute to a seemingly ever-growing, corrosive system of poverty and oppression. These cultural assumptions regarding work, along with a cluster of other labor-related problems (i.e. automation, wage depression, wage theft, the rise of a flexible labor force, a lack of worker representation, over-work, and productivism) have rightfully raised a number of questions about the nature, meaning, and limits of our working lives and working structures.

This book sets out the ways in which St. Augustine offers us-in piecemeal fashion-elements with which we can assemble an alternative vision. By examining his understanding of the role of work in the context of the monastery, we see his understanding of both the ways we should undertake our work and the ends toward which we should direct that work during our lives in a sinful world. Settle draws on these piecemeal treatments of work scattered throughout St. Augustine's varied writings in order to develop and articulate a unified theology of work.
Articulating an Augustinian treatment of the nature, limits, meaning, and end of work, this volume will push Augustinian studies toward a more-detailed engagement with issues of political economy.

Zachary Settle argues that we inhabit a culture that insists that our life's meaning is bound up in our work; we experience constant pressures at work to be more efficient and productive; and we know the ways in which our work-structures contribute to a seemingly ever-growing, corrosive system of poverty and oppression. These cultural assumptions regarding work, along with a cluster of other labor-related problems (i.e. automation, wage depression, wage theft, the rise of a flexible labor force, a lack of worker representation, over-work, and productivism) have rightfully raised a number of questions about the nature, meaning, and limits of our working lives and working structures.

This book sets out the ways in which St. Augustine offers us-in piecemeal fashion-elements with which we can assemble an alternative vision. By examining his understanding of the role of work in the context of the monastery, we see his understanding of both the ways we should undertake our work and the ends toward which we should direct that work during our lives in a sinful world. Settle draws on these piecemeal treatments of work scattered throughout St. Augustine's varied writings in order to develop and articulate a unified theology of work.
Über den Autor
Zachary Thomas Settle holds a PhD in theological studies from Vanderbilt University, USA. He is the editor-in-chief of The Other Journal and the co-editor of Dreams, Doubt, and Dread: The Spiritual in Film (Cascade, 2016).
Zusammenfassung
Explores the ways our economy over-emphasizes our working capabilities and identities, and uses the writings of Augustine to show how work offers opportunities for disintegration or prayerful formation into the life of God.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: What's Wrong With Work?

Chapter 1:
Being a Creature That Works

Chapter 2:
Working the Garden

Chapter 3:
The Effects of Sin on Work

Chapter 4:
Working in the Saeculum

Chapter 5:
The Abolition of Work

Index
Bibliography
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781350299771
ISBN-10: 1350299774
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Settle, Zachary Thomas
Redaktion: Hollingworth, Miles
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 139 x 217 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Zachary Thomas Settle
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.12.2022
Gewicht: 0,206 kg
Artikel-ID: 122007873
Über den Autor
Zachary Thomas Settle holds a PhD in theological studies from Vanderbilt University, USA. He is the editor-in-chief of The Other Journal and the co-editor of Dreams, Doubt, and Dread: The Spiritual in Film (Cascade, 2016).
Zusammenfassung
Explores the ways our economy over-emphasizes our working capabilities and identities, and uses the writings of Augustine to show how work offers opportunities for disintegration or prayerful formation into the life of God.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: What's Wrong With Work?

Chapter 1:
Being a Creature That Works

Chapter 2:
Working the Garden

Chapter 3:
The Effects of Sin on Work

Chapter 4:
Working in the Saeculum

Chapter 5:
The Abolition of Work

Index
Bibliography
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781350299771
ISBN-10: 1350299774
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Settle, Zachary Thomas
Redaktion: Hollingworth, Miles
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 139 x 217 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Zachary Thomas Settle
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.12.2022
Gewicht: 0,206 kg
Artikel-ID: 122007873
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