The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy

The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy is a book by the Italian philosopher Franco Berardi.[1][2]

Summary

In the book Berardi reflects on the new forms of alienation and addresses the peoples' feeling of alienation in regards to labour, as well as how their refusal to submit to it used to be the foundation of a human community that fought for autonomy against the labour society. The new form of alienation that Berardi claims have established itself results in that people don't reflect over the nature of work and a society where debt has become the modern mechanism of slavery, where people use psychopharmaceutical drugs to deal with the constant pressure to produce.[3][4]

Berardi cites a number of authors in the book. For example: Epicurus, Luciano Gallina, Gregory Bateso, Alain Ehrenberg, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.[5]

The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy

Sources
  1. Berardi, Franco (2009). The soul at work : from alienation to autonomy. Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext(e). ISBN 978-1-58435-076-7. OCLC 319498068.
  2. March 2012, Joshua Paetkau | Winter 2011 Issue | Published 23rd. "Harnessing the soul for the marketplace". geezmagazine.org. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
  3. "Review of The Soul at Work by Franco Berardi". libcom.org. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
  4. March 2012, Joshua Paetkau | Winter 2011 Issue | Published 23rd. "Harnessing the soul for the marketplace". geezmagazine.org. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
  5. Berardi, Franco (2009). The soul at work : from alienation to autonomy. Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext(e). pp. 223–229. ISBN 978-1-58435-076-7. OCLC 319498068.



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