by Luis Racionero · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433900692
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«Del paro al ocio» is the essay by Luis Racionero, published by Editorial Anagrama in the Argumentos collection (152 pages, in Spanish).
Racionero analyzes unemployment and the sociological crises of advanced industrial society as a philosophical problem of values. He points out two contradictions: automating while maintaining full employment, and educating the youth of the opulent society in puritan morality; from these arise unemployment and apathy. Against the work-oriented mentality of Nordic countries, he proposes that Mediterraneans, experts in ends, organize life to enjoy abundance.
The book won the XI Anagrama Essay Prize and belongs to the Argumentos collection.
Recommended for readers interested in philosophy, sociology and cultural criticism of 1980s Spain.
Luis Racionero i Grau was a Spanish essayist.
