The Labour of Spirit

by Massimo Cacciari

A provocative examination of the fate of autonomous, creative labor under capitalism.

Between 1917 and 1919, Max Weber delivered two lectures titled Die geistige Arbeit als Beruf, which we might translate as The Labour of Spirit as Vocation. This weighty formula represented the hope that animated the world of bourgeois culture from the likes of Kant, Goethe, Schiller, Fichte, and Hegel and would later form the earliest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 180309513X
• ISBN13: 9781803095134
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Length: 130 Pages