Domenico De Masi
Creative idleness and a new future
Interviewed in 2012, Domenico De Masi, born inclasse 1938, is a professor of Sociology at the University of Rome "La Sapienza".
Domenico De Masi tells his studies and research. In the course of the years he investigated themes such as sociological theory, tangible and intangible heritage, industrial and post-industrial society, working class power. He stressed the importance of a new cultural model for the Western countries to deal with the current crisis.
Video table of contents
- Family
- Life of a student
- Gastronomic biography
- University and travels
- Sociology in Paris
- The times of the journals
- Sociology in Italy
- Criminal sociology
- Early works
- Nord e Sud: the journal
- Il punto: the journal
- La negazione urbana
- Il Mulino, Laterza and Franco Angeli
- Intangible and tangible heritage
- The post-industrial advent
- Working-class power
- The coming of post-industrial society Daniel Bell
- Left militancy
- Oscar Niemeyer
- Teaching
- Elite turism
- Creative idleness
- The study of creativity
- Collective creativity
- Fantasy and creativity
- Crisis
- Models
- The American model
- The need of a new model
- Models' dissemination
- The intellectual and the absence of a model
- Reinterpreting the reality
- Brazil and a model for the West
- A new attitude towards reality
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Lazio
City: Roma
District: RM
Altitude: 21m s.l.m.
Wikipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domenico_De_Masi
Urls: Sito ufficiale
Domenico De Masi
Date of birth: 02-01-1938
City: Rotello (Campobasso)
School: University
Profession: Teacher/Professor
Languages: Italiano
Bibliography:
La negazione urbana (Il Mulino, 1971)
Sociologia dell’azienda (Il Mulino, 1973)
I lavoratori nell’industria italiana (Angeli, 1974)
Trattato di sociologia del lavoro e dell’organizzazione (Angeli, 1985-87)
L’avvento post-industriale (1985)
Il lavoratore post-industriale (Angeli, 1985)
L’emozione e la regola. I gruppi creativi in Europa dal 1850 al 1950 (Laterza, 1990/Rizzoli, 2005)
Sviluppo senza lavoro (Edizioni Lavoro, 1994)
L’ozio creativo (Ediesse, 1995/Rizzoli, 2000)
Il futuro del lavoro (1999 e 2007)
La fantasia e la concretezza. Creatività individuale e di gruppo (2003)
Napoli e la questione meridionale (2005)
Non c’è progresso senza felicità (2004)
La felicità (2008)
Document by: Andrea Icardi
Video by: Piercarlo Grimaldi, Andrea Icardi
Created: 12-07-2012
