Daniel Alvaro

Daniel Alvaro holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis. He is a researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at UBA. He directs the “Grupo de Estudios sobre Problemas Sociales y Filosóficos”, based at the Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani. He has translated works by Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy and published articles in collective works, specialist journals and the media. He recently co-edited Diseño de la vida, filosofía y neoliberalismo (Buenos Aires, IIGG, 2023).

The project

Title: "Critiques of work and experiences of idleness: theoretical, political and artistic approaches"

The research is devoted to the analysis of different aspects of what Jean-Marie Vincent calls the “critique of work” from a theoretical, political and artistic point of view. The first aspect to be considered is the modern and contemporary history of the notion of work. A second aspect to consider relates to the study and comparison of critical positions that, from Marx's time to the present day, resist the primacy of work by means of arguments that have generally been undervalued from a theoretical and political point of view. A third and final aspect of the research concerns the centrality of work, understood as a fundamental value of rationality, normativity and affectivity prevailing in the subjectivities and forms of life of neoliberal societies.

Host institution : Le CERCC, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches comparées sur la Création (UR 1633), Lyon

Selective Bibliography

Books

• Daniel Alvaro (Coord.), Diseño de la vida, filosofía y neoliberalismo, Buenos Aires, IIGG, 2023. ISBN 978-950-29-1965-2.
• Políticas de la herencia, Santiago de Chile, Social-Ediciones, 2021. ISBN 978-956-19-1234-2.

Chapters in books

• “Notes on Community and the Common in Marx”, en Niall Bond (Ed.), The Concept of Community from a Global Perspective, Leiden / Boston, Brill, 2024, pp. 47-64. ISBN: 978-90-04-69732-4.
• “Después de la comunidad”, in María Cecilia Barelli y Laura Rodríguez (Comps.), Variaciones filosóficas en torno a la comunidad. Un relevamiento del pensamiento moderno y contemporáneo, Bahía Blanca, Editorial de la Universidad Nacional del Sur, 2024, pp. 4-6. ISBN 978-987-655-341-4.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

 "La ergontología de Marx: consideraciones sobre la determinación metafísica del trabajo a partir de Heidegger y Derrida”, Revista Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, 42(2), 2024, pp. 369-379. e-ISSN 0211-2337.