The Self as Enterprise: Foucault and the Spirit of 21st Century Capitalism

by Peter Kelly

Book Overview

Twenty first century, flexible capitalism creates new demands for those who work to acknowledge that all aspects of their lives have come to be seen as performance related, and consequently of interest to those who employ them (or fire them). At the start of the 21st century we can identify, borrowing from Max Weber, new work ethics that provide novel ethically slanted maxims for the conduct of a life, and which suggest that the cultivation of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032925922
• ISBN13: 9781032925929
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages