Work, knowledge and society: Brief notes on the relationship between being and consciousness
At a time in which contradictions of all types reign our daily lives, imposing immediate answers for the most urgent of objective problems (such as persistent unemployment, social inequality, wars, global warming, degradation of human relations, etc.) questions such as the relationship between being...
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| Lenguaje: | Portugués |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
2009
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| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica/article/view/2175-7984.2008v7n13p265 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=br/br-033&d=article9320oai |
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| Sumario: | At a time in which contradictions of all types reign our daily lives, imposing
immediate answers for the most urgent of objective problems (such
as persistent unemployment, social inequality, wars, global warming,
degradation of human relations, etc.) questions such as the relationship
between being and consciousness are commonly seen as mere academic
dilettantism. Our purpose here is to point out that it is very probable
that vulgar Marxism itself contributed – given the historical opportune
moment – to the scenario in which idealist thought, in its most recent
configurations, has taken over issues regarding knowledge and subjectivity,
as if one could expound on these topics by putting inquiries into the
issues of being to rest. The idealism that has reigned in recent decades
has promoted the disqualification of the old project of using reason and
knowledge as a means for social transformation. For a long time, critical
currents of social thought, particularly those linked to Marxism, were
able to sustain the thesis that labor was the most adequate of categories
for initiating a process of construction of the knowledge necessary to
reconstitute, within thought, the most important aspects of social reality.
The centrality of labor would result from the fact that social existence itself
is dependent on this activity, which - in the broad sense employed here
-summarizes a range of activities destined to produce and reproduce the
conditions of the (social) subsistence of the human species. |
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