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Author:   John Hughes (St David's Parish Church, Exeter)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9781405158923

ISBN 10:   1405158921
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   25 September 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword. Preface. Introduction: Work in the Christian Tradition. 1. Twentieth-century Theologies of Work: Karl Barth, Marie-Dominique Chenu, John Paul II and Miroslav Volf. 2. Utility as the Spirit of Capitalism: Max Weber’s Diagnosis of Modern Work. 3. Labour, Excess and Utility in Karl Marx: The Problem of Materialism and the Aesthetic. 4. John Ruskin and William Morris: An Alternative Tradition: Labor and the Theo-aesthetic in English Romantic Critiques of Capitalism. 5. The Frankfurt School: The Critique of Instrumental Reason and Hints of Return to the Theo-aesthetic within Marxism. 6. The end of Work: Rest, Beauty and Liturgy: The Catholic Metaphysical Critique of the Culture of Work and its Incorporation into the English Romantic Tradition: Josef Pieper, Jacques Maritain, Eric Gill and David Jones. 7. Concluding Remarks: Labor, Utility and Theology. Bibliography. Index

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Its strength lies in its illuminating discussions of a fairly wide range of writers. (Times Higher Education Supplement, February 2008)

Author Information

John Hughes is Curate of St David’s with St Michael’s Exeter and holds a Cambridge PhD. He has published a number of articles in top journals such as Telos and Modern Theology.

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