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...
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...
Menschliches Miteinander ist einerseits stets von Konflikten durchzogen und anderseits von dem Bedürfnis nach Konsens geprägt.§Luc Boltanski und Laurent Thévenot untersuchen, auf welche Weise sich die Mitglieder einer Gesellschaft über die wesentlichen Aspekte des Zusammenlebens verständigen und welches Bindeglied für ein harmonisches und allseits akzeptiertes Miteinander sorgt.§Sie arbeiten sechs für unsere heutige Gesellschaft konstitutive§Rechtfertigungsprinzipien heraus und überprüfen ihr Modell der Rechtfertigungsordnungen u.a. an Managementhandbüchern, die den Mitarbeitern...
Menschliches Miteinander ist einerseits stets von Konflikten durchzogen und anderseits von dem Bedürfnis nach Konsens geprägt.§Luc Boltanski und La...
New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalism In this major work, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello go to the heart of the changes in contemporary capitalism. Via an unprecedented analysis of the latest management texts that have formed the thinking of employers in their reorganization of business, the authors trace the contours of a new spirit of capitalism. They argue that from the middle of the 1970s onwards, capitalism abandoned the hierarchical Fordist work structure and developed a new network-based form of organization that was founded...
New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalism In this major work, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello ...
