Images of starving children, bombed villages and mass graves brought to us by television in the comfort of our homes implicitly call on us to act. What can we do when the suffering we see is so distant and we feel powerless compared with the forces behind the suffering? Luc Boltanski examines the ways in which, since the end of the eighteenth century, spectators have tried to respond acceptably to what they have seen, and discusses whether there remains a place for pity in modern politics.
Images of starving children, bombed villages and mass graves brought to us by television in the comfort of our homes implicitly call on us to act. Wha...
Images of starving children, bombed villages and mass graves brought to us by television in the comfort of our homes implicitly call on us to act. What can we do when the suffering we see is so distant and we feel powerless compared with the forces behind the suffering? Luc Boltanski examines the ways in which, since the end of the eighteenth century, spectators have tried to respond acceptably to what they have seen, and discusses whether there remains a place for pity in modern politics.
Images of starving children, bombed villages and mass graves brought to us by television in the comfort of our homes implicitly call on us to act. Wha...
A vital and underappreciated dimension of social interaction is the way individuals justify their actions to others, instinctively drawing on their experience to appeal to principles they hope will command respect. Individuals, however, often misread situations, and many disagreements can be explained by people appealing, knowingly and unknowingly, to different principles. On Justification is the first English translation of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thevenot's ambitious theoretical examination of these phenomena, a book that has already had a huge impact on French sociology and is...
A vital and underappreciated dimension of social interaction is the way individuals justify their actions to others, instinctively drawing on their...
Luc Boltanski behandelt in seinen Frankfurter Adorno-Vorlesungen eine Frage, die vor allem die erste Generation der Frankfurter Schule umtrieb, die derzeit aber in der französischen Sozialtheorie sehr viel nachdrücklicher gestellt wird als hierzulande: Wie verhält sich das Wissen des kritischen Theoretikers zu den alltäglichen Urteilen der Akteure, in deren Namen er seine Kritik formuliert? Dabei bleibt Boltanski dem Grundmotiv treu, das ihn im Laufe der achtziger Jahre in immer deutlichere Distanz zu seinem Lehrer Pierre Bourdieu brachte. Er unterläuft die klassische Trennung zwischen...
Luc Boltanski behandelt in seinen Frankfurter Adorno-Vorlesungen eine Frage, die vor allem die erste Generation der Frankfurter Schule umtrieb, die de...
People care a great deal about justice. They protest and engage in confrontations with others when their sense of justice is affronted or disturbed. When they do this, they don't generally act in a strategic or calculating way but use arguments that claim a general validity. Disputes are commonly regulated by these 'regimes of justice' implicit in everyday social life. But justice is not the only regime that governs action. There are some actions that are selfless and gratuitous, and that belong to what might be called a regime of 'peace' or 'love'. In the course of their everyday lives,...
People care a great deal about justice. They protest and engage in confrontations with others when their sense of justice is affronted or disturbed...
The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the same period, psychiatry was inventing paranoia, sociology was devising new forms of causality to explain the social lives of individuals and groups and political science was shifting the problematics of paranoia from the psychic to the social realm and seeking to explain historical events in terms of conspiracy theories. In each instance, social reality was cast into doubt. We owe the project of organizing and...
The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and ea...
The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the same period, psychiatry was inventing paranoia, sociology was devising new forms of causality to explain the social lives of individuals and groups and political science was shifting the problematics of paranoia from the psychic to the social realm and seeking to explain historical events in terms of conspiracy theories. In each instance, social reality was cast into doubt. We owe the project of organizing and...
The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and ea...
