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Il lavoro in Senofonte tra tradizione e innovazione

  • Fabio Roscalla

The article traces a brief profile of Xenophon's influence in the History of Economic Thought, in particular in Marx's labour theory. Some passages from Xenophon’s works are presented, from which the idea of an embryonic division of labour emerges, as well as the proposal to free citizens to carry out manual activities in order to face the economic hardship following the Peloponnesian War. In this perspective manual tasks as well are not to be seen as unworthy of a free man.

  • Keywords:
  • Xenophon,
  • division of labour,
  • manual activities,
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Fabio Roscalla

University of Pavia, Italy

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Chapter Title

Il lavoro in Senofonte tra tradizione e innovazione

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Fabio Roscalla

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Italian

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10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.07

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2024

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Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà

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Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli

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2024

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Firenze University Press

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