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

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• dc.contributor.author Herzog, Lisa
• dc.contributor.author Li, Man-kong
• dc.contributor.author Llaguno Nieves, Tatiana
• dc.date.accessioned 2025-02-25T07:09:54Z
• dc.date.available 2025-02-25T07:09:54Z
• dc.date.issued 2023
• dc.description Data de publicació electrònica: 11-03-2024
• dc.description.abstract In 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.en
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• dc.identifier.citation Herzog L, Li M, Llaguno T. Cook Ding meets homo oeconomicus. Contrasting Daoist and economistic imaginaries of work. Crit Rev Int Soc Political Philos. 2024 Mar 11. DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2024.2318170
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2024.2318170
• dc.identifier.issn 1369-8230
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69698
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Taylor & Francis
• dc.relation.ispartof Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. 2024 Mar 11
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• dc.subject.keyword Worken
• dc.subject.keyword Zhuangzien
• dc.subject.keyword Homo oeconomicusen
• dc.subject.keyword Imaginaryen
• dc.subject.keyword Bodyen
• dc.subject.keyword Natureen
• dc.title Cook Ding meets homo oeconomicus. Contrasting Daoist and economistic imaginaries of worken
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