For Work / Against Work
Debates on the centrality of work

"Reason, production, and rival visions of working life"

by Breen, Kieth (2012)

Abstract

The capacity for reasonable argument about practical and political matters is important to our daily lives. Yet what does arguing really involve? Often, our very concept of what it is to argue seems systematically distorted. Practical, political arguing is too often stylized as hyper-cognitive, ending by treating people as objects rather than other selves - in ways that are fundamentally unreasonable. This book examines what follows from seeing people as deliberating and acting in ways that intertwine a variety of emotional and evaluative processes and effects of virtue or character. From this point of view, practical arguing involves not just cognition, emotion, and virtue, but also practices, including imaginative practices. Politics of Practical Reasoning: Integrating Action, Discour...

Keywords

Production, Reason, Rational Subject, Practical Reasoning, Discourse

Themes

Republicanism

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