Work and Creativity: A Philosophical Study from Creation to Postmodernity

✍ Scribed by André LaCocque Chicago Theological Seminary

• Publisher: Fortress Academic
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 147
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Philosophy
What about the J Tradition?
The Bible and Cuneiform Texts: A Primary Stage of Intertextuality
What Do Philosophers Say?
First Excursus: The General and the Particular
The Garden Raises the Problem of Space and, Subsidiarily, of Evil
Homo Faber
Home and Exile: Encountering the Other
Once More on Production
Adam Is a Property Tenant
The Relationship with God
Work Mechanized
Today’s “Surplus Value”
Entelechy
Part II: Psychoanalysis
Introduction
A Response to Sigmund Freud
On Freud’s Theory of Phylogenesis
Libido or Aedificatio?
Work as Knowledge
Work, Knowledge, and Death
Second Excursus: Ernest Becker
Work and Civilization: Morality and Guilt
Work and Worldview
Third Excursus: The Commandment
Synopsis
Part III: Dialectical Criticism
For a Dialectical Understanding
Peripeteia
A Concluding Reflection on Dialectical Work and Creativity
Dialectic Is Dialogical
The Enigmatic (Dialectical) Relationship of Israel and Land
On Lex Talionis
On Divorce
On Kashrut
Genesis 3 Revisited
Rebellion
Back to the Tree of Knowledge
Postscript: Dialectical Criticism among Other Methodologies
Bibliography
Index of Interpreted Biblical Texts
Index of JewishTraditional Literature Cited
Index of Names Cited
About the Author