Bergson’s reflection on labour is significantly present in his courses, public speeches and major published works. During the Second Industrial Revolution, he identifies the technical division of labour as the starting point of a long process of social transformation toward the “open society”. As I show in this article, Bergson, however, does not want the change of labour as such, but only the preservation of the intelligent one. Therefore, it is not possible to extrapolate from his position an alternative proposal to the simple appeal to the utopian dimension of a society that remains divided into classes. A conflict that much of the intellectual class of his time, at least those of liberal orientation, was still unwilling to resolve.
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Chapter Title
Bergson di fronte alla seconda rivoluzione industriale: dalla divisione tecnica del lavoro al lavoro intelligente della société ouverte
Authors
Riccardo Roni
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.87
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2024
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Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Editors
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
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Number of Pages
1894
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2024
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
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979-12-215-0245-9
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979-12-215-0319-7
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Series Title
Studi e saggi
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2704-6478
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2704-5919