Solutions to the Ambivalent Quality of Life in Common

Luigino Bruni ()

Chapter 3 in The Genesis and Ethos of the Market, 2012, pp 34-56 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the previous chapter we have seen how the tragic character of life in common was first recognized in Greece and Israel. We are still far from the tragic dimension of the modern age, which we will discuss later, and yet we can already discern the prodromes that much later will evolve into modern humanism. In this chapter I wish to outline some of the solutions or, as we shall see, some of the escape routes that have been proposed in response to the fragility of the communitas. These solutions have in common what Esposito and others have called immunitas, albeit none of them mention that the main place of immunitas is actually the market, the economic space — which is what I try to demonstrate in the final part of this essay.

Keywords: Social Contract; Ancient Community; Cooperative Movement; Fellow Traveller; Jewish World (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137030528_3

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