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Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(1):177-183 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2015.018

Civic Rhetoric for the Social State: On Gerd van Istendael's Precarius

Jakub Jinek
Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Filozofická fakulta, Ústav filosofie a religionistiky, Nám. J. Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1

The paper discusses the concept of the precariate as it occurs in Gerd van Istendael's essay The Perish of St Precarius. The goal of the paper is, on one hand, to show that Van Istendael's usage of the concept is a piece of civic rhetoric rather than of ideology of Marxist type; on the other hand, that this approach has its inner limits given firstly by a limited perspective and secondly by neglecting the core question of common good.

Keywords: precariate, social justice, state, social security, civic rhetoric, common good

Published: March 30, 2015  Show citation

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Jinek, J. (2015). Civic Rhetoric for the Social State: On Gerd van Istendael's Precarius. Caritas et veritas, 5(1), 177-183. doi: 10.32725/cetv.2015.018
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