Work and Creativity

André LaCocque

doi:10.5771/9781978708983

Summary

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, André 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.

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Copyright year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-0897-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-0898-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 134
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Abbreviations No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
1. What about the J Tradition? No access
2. The Bible and Cuneiform Texts: A Primary Stage of Intertextuality No access
3. What Do Philosophers Say? No access
4. First Excursus: The General and the Particular No access
5. The Garden Raises the Problem of Space and, Subsidiarily, of Evil No access
6. Homo Faber No access
7. Home and Exile: Encountering the Other No access
8. Once More on Production No access
9. Adam Is a Property Tenant No access
10. The Relationship with God No access
11. Work Mechanized No access
12. Today’s “Surplus Value” No access
13. Entelechy No access
1. Introduction No access
2. A Response to Sigmund Freud No access
3. On Freud’s Theory of Phylogenesis No access
4. Libido or Aedificatio? No access
5. Work as Knowledge No access
6. Work, Knowledge, and Death No access
7. Second Excursus: Ernest Becker No access
8. Work and Civilization: Morality and Guilt No access
9. Work and Worldview No access
10. Third Excursus: The Commandment No access
11. Synopsis No access
1. For a Dialectical Understanding No access
2. Peripeteia No access
3. A Concluding Reflection on Dialectical Work and Creativity No access
4. Dialectic Is Dialogical No access
5. The Enigmatic (Dialectical) Relationship of Israel and Land No access
6. On Lex Talionis No access
7. On Divorce No access
8. On Kashrut No access
9. Genesis 3 Revisited No access
10. Rebellion No access
11. Back to the Tree of Knowledge No access
12. Postscript: Dialectical Criticism among Other Methodologies No access
Bibliography No access Pages 107 - 120
Index of Interpreted Biblical Texts No access Pages 121 - 122
Index of JewishTraditional Literature Cited No access Pages 123 - 124
Index of Names Cited No access Pages 125 - 132
About the Author No access Pages 133 - 134