After Work: The Human Question When Survival Ends - Couverture souple

Lux, Caspian

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798247390008

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

What happens to human meaning when survival no longer demands effort?

For most of history, necessity organized life.
Hunger dictated movement. Fatigue defined rest. Work provided more than income—it offered orientation, identity, and justification for existence.

That alignment is weakening.

In this diagnostic work, Caspian Lux examines the emerging condition of post-necessity: a world where abundance disconnects effort from outcome, where automation severs the link between action and consequence, and where freedom from survival pressure produces not fulfillment, but fragmentation.

Drawing on philosophy, psychology, sociology, and economics, After Work names what many experience but lack language to describe: motivational flattening, symbolic competition, and existential drift in lives no longer structured by constraint.

This book does not offer optimism.
It does not offer prescriptions.
It offers clarity.

This book will resonate if you are interested in: • The future of work beyond automation hype
• Meaning and motivation under conditions of abundance
• Why comfort produces anxiety instead of peace
• How symbolic status replaces material necessity

Written in the tradition of Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and Arendt’s The Human Condition, After Work is a diagnostic work—describing structural conditions so they can be clearly seen, rigorously debated, and consciously inhabited.

What comes after work is not rest.
It is a question.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798247390008
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 156
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