Misreading Gorz

New Left Review

Volumn , Issue 217, 1996, Pages 102-122

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References (104)

1. Jürgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action, vol. 2, Cambridge 1987, p. 117.
2. Johannes Berger and Norbert Kostede, 'Review of Farewell to the Working Class', Telos, no 51, Spring 1982, p. 231.
3. Secan Sayers, 'Gorz on Work and Liberation', Radical Philosophy, no. 58, Summer 1991, p. 16.
4. Berger and Kostede, 'Review of Farewell', p. 232.
5. Geoff Hodgson, The Democratic Economy, Harmondsworth 1984, p. 190.
6. Berger and Kostede, 'Review of Farewell', p. 231.
7. David Byrne, 'A Rejection of André Gorz's Farewell to the Working Class', Capital and Class, no. 24, Winter 1985, pp. 77, 82.
8. Chris Whitbread, 'Gorz, Nove, Hodgson: The Economics of Socialism', Capital and Class, no. 26, Summer 1985, p. 139 his italics.
9. Gorz, Farewell to the Working Class, trans. Michael Sonenscher, London 1982, p. 9.
10. Gorz, Paths to Paradise, trans. Malcolm Imrie, London 1985, p. 51.
11. Berger and Kostede, 'Review of Farewell', p. 231.
12. Gorz, Farewell, p. 98.
13. Gorz, Paths, pp. 50-51.
14. André Gorz, Critique of Economic Reason, trans. Gillian Handyside and Chris Turner, Verso, London 1989, p. 102.
15. Ibid., p. 169.
16. Ibid., p. 78, his italics.
17. Ibid., p. 79, his italics.
18. Richard Hyman, 'André Gorz and his Disappearing Proletariat', The Socialist Register, London 1983, p. 286.
19. Boris Frankel, The Post-Industrial Utopians, Cambridge 1987, pp. 212-13.
20. Gorz, Paths, p. 52.
21. Gorz, Farewell, p. 49.
22. Gorz, Paths, p. 52, his italics.
23. Gorz, Farewell, p. 87.
24. Gorz, Critique, p. 93, his italics.
25. Gorz, Farewell, p. 118.
26. Frankel, The Post-Industrial Utopians, p. 206.
27. Gorz, Critique, p. 87.
28. Gorz, Paths, p. 52.
29. Gorz, Critique, p. 83, his italics.
30. Byrne, 'A Rejection of André Gorz's Farewell', p. 78.
31. Hyman, 'André Gorz and his Disappearing Proletariat', p. 292.
32. Dick Howard, The Marxian Legacy, second edition, London 1988, pp. 389, 390.
33. Adrian Atkinson, Principles of Political Ecology, London 1991, p. 33.
34. Hodgson, The Democratic Economy, pp. 190-1.
35. Arthur Hirsh, The French New Left, Montreal 1982, p. 242.
36. Hyman, 'André Gorz and his Disappearing Proletariat', p. 292.
37. Ian Birchall, 'Review of Farewell to the Working Class', Socialist Review, no. 50, January 1983, pp. 24-5.
38. Hyman, 'André Gorz and his Disappearing Proletariat'; Birchall, 'Review of Farewell'; Alex Callinicos, Making History, Cambridge 1987, p. 185.
39. Hyman, 'André Gorz and his Disappearing Proletariat'; Birchall, 'Review of Farewell'; Alex Callinicos, Making History, Cambridge 1987, p. 185.
40. Hyman, 'André Gorz and his Disappearing Proletariat'; Birchall, 'Review of Farewell'; Alex Callinicos, Making History, Cambridge 1987, p. 185.
41. Callinicos, Making History, p. 187.
42. Paul Kellogg, 'Goodbye to the Working Class?', International Socialism, no. 36, Autumn 1987.
43. Gorz, Farewell, pp. 39, 37.
44. Gorz, Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology, trans. Chris Turner, Verso, London, 1994, p. 88.
45. Frankel, The Post-Industrial Utopians, p. 212.
46. Gorz, Paths, p. 35, his italics.
47. Gorz, Farewell, p. 81.
48. Ibid., pp. 11, 12, 7.
49. Perry Anderson, In the Tracks of Historical Materialism, Verso, London 1983, p. 105.
50. Frankel, The Post-Industrial Utopians, p. 232.
51. Berger and Kostede, 'Review of Farewell', p. 233.
52. Gorz, Farewell, p. 13.
53. Anthony Giddens, 'The Perils of Punditry: Gorz and the End of the Working Class', in Giddens, Social Theory and Modern Sociology, Cambridge 1987, p. 295.
54. Byrne, 'A Rejection of André Gorz's Farewell', p. 79.
55. Gorz, Farewell, p. 12.
56. Private letter, August 1993.
57. Frankel, The Post-Industrial Utopians, p. 211. The view that Gorz rejects any modern role for the labour movement is shared by Robyn Eckersley, Environmentalism and Political Theory, New York 1992, p. 124.
58. Frankel, The Post-Industrial Utopians, p. 211. The view that Gorz rejects any modern role for the labour movement is shared by Robyn Eckersley, Environmentalism and Political Theory, New York 1992, p. 124.
59. Gorz, Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology, pp. 69, 87.
60. Sean Sayers, 'The Need to Work', in R.E. Pahl, ed., On Work, Oxford 1988, p. 741, his italics.
61. Ibid., pp. 730, 731.
62. Sayers, 'Gorz on Work and Liberation', p. 16.
63. Frankel, The Post-Industrial Utopians, p. 84; Darrow Schecter, Radical Theories: Paths Beyond Marxism and Social Democracy, Manchester 1994, p. 161; John Keane and John Owens, After Full Employment, London 1986, pp. 175-7; Maurice Roche, Rethinking Citizenship, Cambridge 1992, p. 177.
64. Frankel, The Post-Industrial Utopians, p. 84; Darrow Schecter, Radical Theories: Paths Beyond Marxism and Social Democracy, Manchester 1994, p. 161; John Keane and John Owens, After Full Employment, London 1986, pp. 175-7; Maurice Roche, Rethinking Citizenship, Cambridge 1992, p. 177.
65. Frankel, The Post-Industrial Utopians, p. 84; Darrow Schecter, Radical Theories: Paths Beyond Marxism and Social Democracy, Manchester 1994, p. 161; John Keane and John Owens, After Full Employment, London 1986, pp. 175-7; Maurice Roche, Rethinking Citizenship, Cambridge 1992, p. 177.
66. Frankel, The Post-Industrial Utopians, p. 84; Darrow Schecter, Radical Theories: Paths Beyond Marxism and Social Democracy, Manchester 1994, p. 161; John Keane and John Owens, After Full Employment, London 1986, pp. 175-7; Maurice Roche, Rethinking Citizenship, Cambridge 1992, p. 177.
67. Gorz, Paths, p. 41, my italics.
68. Sean Sayers, 'Work, Leisure and Human Needs', in Tom Winnifrith and Cyril Barrett, eds, The Philosophy of Leisure, London 1989, p. 49.
69. Sayers, 'The Need to Work', p. 738.
70. Gorz, Paths, p. 54.
71. Sayers, 'The Need to Work', p. 736.
72. Gorz, Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology, p. 55.
73. Sayers, 'The Need to Work', p. 740.
74. Sayers, 'Gorz on Work and Liberation', pp. 16-17.
75. Gorz, Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology, p. 61.
76. Sayers, 'Gorz on Work and Liberation', pp. 18, 19.
77. Ibid., p. 18.
78. Gorz, Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology, p. 97.
79. Ibid., pp. 62-3, his italics.
80. Sayers, 'Gorz on Work and Liberation', p. 18.
81. Gorz, Critique, p. 237.
82. Ibid., p. 146, his italics.
83. Ibid., p. 159.
84. Sayers, 'Gorz on Work and Liberation', p. 19, his italics.
85. Ibid.
86. Gorz, Farewell, pp. 102-3.
87. Sayers, 'Gorz on Work and Liberation', p. 19.
88. Byrne, 'A Rejection of André Gorz's Farewell', pp. 87, 89.
89. See Gorz's critique of Illich's traditionalism in Critique, pp. 162-4.
90. Gorz, Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology, p. 95.
91. Ibid., p. 24.
92. Ibid., p. 41.
93. Ibid., p. 76.
94. Ibid., p. 69.
95. See Robin Archer, Economic Democracy: The Politics of Feasible Socialism, Oxford 1995.
96. See Gorz, Critique, pp. 135-71.
97. See Ash Amin, ed., Post-Fordism: A Reader, Oxford 1994.
98. Gorz, Critique, pp. 73-89.
99. See Jeremy Rifkin, The End of Work, New York 1995.
100. The Time Squeeze, Demos Quarterly, no. 5, 1995.
101. See Gorz, Critique, pp. 173-180. This can be traced back to the neo-Sartrean text Gorz wrote in the 1950s, Fondements pour une morale, Paris 1977, especially the chapter on 'Natural Life', pp. 141-97.
102. Gorz, 'Political Ecology: Expertocracy versus Self-Limitation', NLR 202, November-December 1993, pp. 55-67.
103. See Gorz, Critique, pp. 140, 150-2, 161-4. Michael Young and A. H. Halsey for the Institute for Policy Research recently proposed a 'parent wage' to discourage full-time mothers from choosing single parenthood for financial reasons. Family and Community Socialism, London 1995.
104. See Gorz, Critique, pp. 140, 150-2, 161-4. Michael Young and A. H. Halsey for the Institute for Policy Research recently proposed a 'parent wage' to discourage full-time mothers from choosing single parenthood for financial reasons. Family and Community Socialism, London 1995.