This book contains a series of lectures on the philosophy of work, delivered at Duquesne University. From his study of modern philosophy, the author is convinced of the necessity of integrating a philosophy of work into the traditional system of philosophy. His book presents an analysis of labour in function of Marxism, whose starting-point is a philosophy of work and whose end is the redemption of man through labour.

This book is mainly a study of research–work in criminology in Britain and America; it is a very competent report on what the social scientist knows about criminality by one who has the practical experience of the magistrate’s court, allied to the theoretical knowledge of the sociologist. It was written “for the interested layman”. The work is in three parts: Part I, which is the most strictly sociological, presents a picture of the “social pathology” of England and Wales, and then (...) reviews the theories “explaining” criminality; Part II, which might be considered as an exercise in the sociology of knowledge, considers the changing attitudes towards the criminal, and the effects of the rise of psychiatry; Part III, draws conclusions, methodological and practical. (shrink)