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Precarity and Loss

On Certain and Uncertain Properties of Life and Work

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Tadeusz Rachwał

    1. University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland

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  • Social and political interdependencies of life and work
  • The status of human subjctivity in modern working environments
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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. What? Perishability and the Idea of Having Time

    • Tadeusz Rachwał
    Pages 1-19

  3. How? Poetically, Contingently, Plastically

    • Tadeusz Rachwał
    Pages 21-49

  4. Why? Something, Nothing and (Descartes’) Uncertainty

    • Tadeusz Rachwał
    Pages 51-87

  5. Where? Places and Spaces

    • Tadeusz Rachwał
    Pages 89-104

  6. Who? We the Precariat; or All Together Now (a Postword)

    • Tadeusz Rachwał
    Pages 105-114

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 115-125
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About this book

The book is devoted to social and political interdependencies of life and work, the interdependencies in which the ideas of loss and deprivation are the founding incentives of the precariousness of the position and the status of the human subject. Loss of property in the economic sense, along with the loss of properties in epistemological terms have become a crucial measure of precarity through its dissociation from what Judith Butler calls “the organization and protection of bodily needs.” The book offers a proposition of multidisciplinary reading of origins and constructions of “anxiety of loss” as a constitutive trait of what may be called the “economization” (or, after Jean-Pierre Dupuy, “economystifacion”) of human condition through various discursive practices tying loss with lack, and in this way making the uncertainty of possessing certain properties into a sphere of politically controlled semi-ontological anxieties. The book also reads loss in terms of topographical disorientation and the idea of placelessness.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland

    Tadeusz Rachwał

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Dr. Tadeusz Rachwał is professor at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland.

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