Self As Enterprise Foucault and the Spirit of 21st Century Capitalism

Name: Self As Enterprise Foucault and the Spirit of 21st Century Capitalism
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ISBN: 9781299184107

ISBN-10: 1299184103

ISBN-13: 9781299184107

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Authors: Peter Kelly

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Twenty first century, flexible capitalism creates new demands for those who work to acknowledge that all aspects of their lives have come to be seen as performance related, and consequently of interest to those who employ them (or fire them). At the start of the 21st century we can identify, borrowing from Max Weber, new work ethics that provide novel ethically slanted maxims for the conduct of a life, and which suggest that the cultivation of the self as an enterprise is the life-long activity that should give meaning, purpose and direction to a life. The book provides an innovative theoretical and methodological approach that draws on the problematising critique of Michel Foucault, the…

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List price: $152.36
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Limited
Publication date: 1/1/2013
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 241
Language: English