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Labor Studies in Samara Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.30727/0235-1188-2022-65-2-67-80

Abstract

The article discusses the works of Samara researchers T.N. Sosnina and L.B. Chetyrova in the field of the philosophy of labor. The analysis is carried out in the context of the need to resolve the socio-epistemological situation of the “death of labor” and to rethink the content of the concept of labor. T.N. Sosnina opened this thematic field of research in Samara in the 1970s with the development of philosophical theory of the subject of labor. As a result, the proper activity of the subject of labor was explained, the subject of labor in the system of spiritual production was singled out, and the prospect of a broad interpretation of labor activity that would include spiritual and managerial components was outlined. Methodological potential of the theory of the subject of labor was further used in the framework of noosphere paradigm approach for the analysis of material production flows and life cycles of the formation of products of nature and society. Taking into account the activity of means and subjects of labor, T.N. Sosnina presented the picture of the world as a universal cooperation. L.B. Chetyrova, discussing historical and cultural panorama of conceptions of labor, interpreted labor as a spiritual and practical activity. Obvious diversity of spiritual culture of the society naturally determines plurality of labor interpretations. Of particular interest is the analysis of the labor concept from the position of linguoconceptology as well as from the prospect of the images of labor in the history of mythology, religion, philosophy, and other worldviews. The Samara philosophy has answered the intellectual challenge of the concept the “death of labor,” proposing pan-ergonism – a worldwiew asserting the totality of labor. This worldview ontologizes the concept of the “labor of the being” and continues the tradition of ergodicy, various versions of which were developed by thinkers of the Silver Age of Russian culture.

About the Author

Evgeny A. Tyugashev
Novosibirsk State University
Russian Federation

Evgeny A. Tyugashev D.Sc. in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Department of Theory and History of Law, Institute of Philosophy and Law, Novosibirsk State University.

Novosibirsk



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Tyugashev E.A. Labor Studies in Samara Philosophy. Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences. 2022;65(2):67-80. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.30727/0235-1188-2022-65-2-67-80



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