CLASS STRUGGLE, WORK ETHICS AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE COMMON GOOD: RESITUATING THE CENTRALITY OF WORK IN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

• Autor(a) principal: Englander, Alexander David Anton Couto
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: preprint
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: SciELO Preprints
• Texto Completo: https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo/preprint/view/7030
• topic: Luta de classes; Hegemonia; Sociologia do Trabalho; Alienação; Democracia; Class struggle; Hegemony; Sociology of work; Democracy; Alienation

In this text I analyze, in a comparative approach, the potentialities and limitsof Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's theory of hegemony and the conception ofcommon good from the perspective of Hartmut Rosa's theory of resonance, as theoretical and analytical instruments for the construction of an anti-essentialist theory of class struggle, based on the concepts of liberal and individualist work ethics and socialist ethics of collectively organized work. The starting point of this comparison is to realize the absence of sociological analysis in the thought of Laclau and Mouffe and, on the other hand, the absence of a debate on hegemony in Rosa's political thought. Finally, an issue shared by these three authors is the lack of an anti-essentialist concept of social class, although all three agree that the social management of the means of production is one of the necessary goals to be achieved to overcome the contemporary civilizational crisis.