caa a22 4500 445375825 CHVBK 20180317143002.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11212-011-9154-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11212-011-9154-y Swiderski E. Fribourg, Switzerland aut Was Brzozowski a "constructionist”? A contemporary reading of Brzozowski's "philosophy of labour” [Elektronische Daten] [E. Swiderski] Brzozowski's ‘philosophy of labour'—to which he devoted a number of writings starting in 1902—presents problems of interpretation. A conceptual approach to his conception shows it to be a sometimes uneasy mix of realist and anti-realist notions. Brzozowski appears to have thought that labour is not first of all about the things it supposedly transforms, but rather about itself. I suggest that Brzozowski can be read in the spirit of Nelson Goodman's nominalist constructionalism ("worldmaking”). On this account, labour in Brzozowski's idiom turns out to be the constitution of forms of symbolizing sufficient unto themselves and the needs they satisfy. However, that Brzozowski was not entirely consistent in the views I impute to him—he forever sought for some ‘external' measure of the rightness of labour/symbolizing—can be explained at least in part by his ‘humanism', that is, his commitment to the task he assigns humankind, that of creating the one meaningful world attesting to virtually unrestricted human power. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Brzozowski nationallicence Labour nationallicence Constructionalism nationallicence Nominalism nationallicence Nelson Goodman nationallicence Value nationallicence Man nationallicence Studies in East European Thought Springer Netherlands 63/4(2011-11-01), 329-343 0925-9392 63:4<329 2011 63 11212 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-011-9154-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-011-9154-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Swiderski E. Fribourg, Switzerland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Studies in East European Thought Springer Netherlands 63/4(2011-11-01), 329-343 0925-9392 63:4<329 2011 63 11212 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer