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Work and Creativity

A Philosophical Study from Creation to Postmodernity
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The Bible highly praises human creativity. In fact, work belongs to Adam's very creation, homo faber in the image of deus faber (Gen. 2:15). Human production is nevertheless seen in the Bible as imbued with an ambiguous value. In Work and Creativity, Andre LaCocque reflects on the biblical understanding of labor, juxtaposing texts from the book of Genesis with the conceptions of work of psychoanalysts and philosophers such as Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx, and proposing a dialectical approach to human work and creativity.
Part One What about the J Tradition? The Bible and Cuneiform Texts: A Primary Stage of Intertextuality What Do Philosophers Say? First Excursus: The General and the Particular The Garden Raises the Problem of Space and, Subsidiarily, of Evil Homo Faber Home and Exile: Encountering the Other Once More on Production Adam Is Property Tenant; Consumption The Relation with God Work Mechanized Today's "Surplus Value" Entelechy Part Two Introduction A Response to Sigmund Freud On Freud's Theory of Phylogenesis Libido or Aedificatio? Work as Knowledge Work, Knowledge, and Death Second Excursus: Ernest Becker Work and Civilization: Morality and Guilt Work and Worldview Third Excursus: The Commandment Synopsis Part Three For a Dialectical Understanding Peripeteia A Concluding Reflection on Dialectical Work and Creativity The Dialectic Is Dialogical The Enigmatic (Dialectic) Relationship of Israel and Land On Lex Talionis On Divorce On Kashrut Genesis 3 Revisited Rebellion Back to the Tree of Knowledge Postscript: Dialectical Criticism among Other Methodologies
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