Cook Ding meets homo oeconomicus. Contrasting Daoist and economistic imaginaries of work

Data de publicació electrònica: 11-03-2024

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Autores: Herzog, Lisa, Li, Man-kong, Llaguno Nieves, Tatiana
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Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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spelling Cook Ding meets homo oeconomicus. Contrasting Daoist and economistic imaginaries of workHerzog, LisaLi, Man-kongLlaguno Nieves, TatianaWorkZhuangziHomo oeconomicusImaginaryBodyNatureData de publicació electrònica: 11-03-2024In this paper, we attempt to de-naturalize the prevailing economistic imaginary of work that Max Weber and later commentators described as ‘protestant work ethic,’ epitomized in the figure of homo economicus. We do so by contrasting it with the imaginary of skillful work that can be found in vignettes about artisans in the Zhuangzi. We argue that there are interesting contrasts between these views concerning 1) direct goal achievement vs. indirect goal achievement through the cultivation of skills; 2) the hierarchization of mental versus physical dimensions of work; 3) the crafting of non-dominating relationships between the working subject, their object, and their instruments of work, which leads to questions about the sustainability of these relationships; and 4) the relationship between work and well-being, which the Daoist texts conceptualize in a much more holistic, but also more presentist way than Western economic rationality. We conclude by pointing out the relevance of these differences for several contemporary debates about work, by denaturalizing a dominant imaginary of work, by distinguishing different forms of work, by suggesting a different relation between work and nature, and by raising questions about the desirability of the automation of work.Taylor & Francis202520252023info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/69698http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2024.2318170reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. 2024 Mar 11© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use,distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered,transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of theAccepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/696982026-06-12T07:21:37Z
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title Cook Ding meets homo oeconomicus. Contrasting Daoist and economistic imaginaries of work
spellingShingle Cook Ding meets homo oeconomicus. Contrasting Daoist and economistic imaginaries of work
Herzog, Lisa
Work
Zhuangzi
Homo oeconomicus
Imaginary
Body
Nature
title_short Cook Ding meets homo oeconomicus. Contrasting Daoist and economistic imaginaries of work
title_full Cook Ding meets homo oeconomicus. Contrasting Daoist and economistic imaginaries of work
title_fullStr Cook Ding meets homo oeconomicus. Contrasting Daoist and economistic imaginaries of work
title_full_unstemmed Cook Ding meets homo oeconomicus. Contrasting Daoist and economistic imaginaries of work
title_sort Cook Ding meets homo oeconomicus. Contrasting Daoist and economistic imaginaries of work
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Herzog, Lisa
Li, Man-kong
Llaguno Nieves, Tatiana
author Herzog, Lisa
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Li, Man-kong
Llaguno Nieves, Tatiana
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Llaguno Nieves, Tatiana
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Work
Zhuangzi
Homo oeconomicus
Imaginary
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topic Work
Zhuangzi
Homo oeconomicus
Imaginary
Body
Nature
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