"They fired him because he couldn't speak." Luciano Bianciardi philosopher of work
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https://doi.org/10.48075/ri.v26i1.32525Keywords:
Language, communication, práxis, poiesis, workAbstract
On the centenary of the author’s birth and sixty years after the publication of La vita agra, it’s time to take Luciano Bianciardi as a philosopher of work. In this article I mean to support such a statement. I intend to oppose two models about the new nature of work: ‘language as work’, ‘work as language’. The first model dates back to Ferruccio Rossi-Landi and it has a prototype in the craftsman of the names in Plato’s Cratylus. The second model can be deduced from a philosophically meaningful passage contained in Bianciardi’s most important novel. Beyond the idle and impolitic outcomes of his fiction and his life, I think that Bianciardi’s model is the most trustworthy one for understanding contemporary work and for imagining forms of struggle and of escape from our discontent.
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