The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Mike talks with Jason Read, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, about his book The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work. Topics Mike & Jason discuss include: - work as a source of meaning and identity - what Spinoza adds to Marx’s views on work - what Fight Club, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul can tell us about work - Gen X and the death of slacker culture - why ‘selling out’ isn’t seen as such a bad thing anymore - mythocracy and negative solidarity The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Mike’s Substack: What Fresh Hell is This? Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.0	The government, hug the government.
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1:10.3	The government. Hug the government. Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
1:18.8	I'm Northern Kentucky University political scientist Michael Barronowski.
1:22.7	My guest today is Jason Reed, a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern Maine and the author of
1:27.9	The Double Shift, Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work, which we'll be discussing today.
1:33.6	Jason Reed, welcome to the show.
1:35.6	Thanks.
1:36.0	Thanks for having me.
1:37.2	So as listeners know, I tend to start interviews with authors with the titles of their books
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