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Ethics And Affects: A Critique Of Social Intelligibility With Adorno, Butler And Spivak, Jana Mcauliffe
Ethics And Affects: A Critique Of Social Intelligibility With Adorno, Butler And Spivak, Jana Mcauliffe
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
In Ethics and affects: a critique of social intelligibility with Adorno, Butler and Spivak I offer a critical analysis that can help to disentangle the reliance of social legitimacy on social intelligibility. I maintain that legitimacy and intelligibility are woven into a kind of double-bind, wherein the illegitimacy of some social identities contributes to a continued unintelligibility of some experiences, while that unintelligibility in turn works to preclude legitimacy. There is thus an injustice, or at least something rather like an injustice, to the ways social intelligibility and social legitimacy are entangled. The central argument here is that critique that …
Human Alienation And Fulfillment In Work: Insights From The Catholic Social Teachings, Ferdinand Tablan
Human Alienation And Fulfillment In Work: Insights From The Catholic Social Teachings, Ferdinand Tablan
Journal of Religion and Business Ethics
This paper is about the modern-day problem of human alienation and fulfillment in work from the perspective of the Catholic social thought. It analyses the symptoms and causes of work alienation, the meaning of work and its significance in the individual’s quest for fulfillment, and how the Catholic social teachings can shed light on the problems involved in transforming the world of work. Alienation in work affects one’s subjective and psychological fulfillment, but it is not ultimately dependent on material culture or economic models. The problem of alienation in work cannot be dealt with by simply modifying the production process …