Talbot Brewer - "On Alienated Emotions" April 8, 2010

Apr. 8 - Talbot Brewer - "On Alienated Emotions"



ABSTRACT: The rise of the service economy has greatly increased the number of workers who face substantial pressure to reshape their feelings in accordance with the interests and objectives of their employers. The aim of this paper is to shed light on what it might mean for this most personal sort of labor -- emotional labor, as it has come to be called -- to be performed for a wage.



--- Talbot Brewer (Ph.D., Harvard) joined the University of Virginia faculty in 1997. His research interests include ethics and political philosophy; Kant and Kantian ethics, Aristotelian virtue theory, moral conflict and moral integrity, theories of the emotions, theories of justice, and theories of political obligation.



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6 E. 16th St., Rm. 906/913, New Wolf Conference Room

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