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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Luc Boltanski |
ISBN: | 9780745649634 0745649637 9780745649641 0745649645 |
OCLC Number: | 663441979 |
Language Note: | Translated from the French. |
Notes: | Originally published in French as: De la critique : précis de sociologie de l'émancipation. Paris : Gallimard, 2009. |
Description: | xiv, 191 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The structure of critical theories -- Critical sociology and pragmatic sociology of critique -- The power of institutions -- The necessity of critique -- Political regimes of domination -- Emancipation in the pragmatic sense. |
Other Titles: | De la critique. |
Responsibility: | Luc Boltanski ; translated by Gregory Elliot. |
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"This work of depth and originality represents a major step in Luc Boltanski's remarkable intellectual trajectory. Having moved from Bourdieusian 'critical sociology' to pragmatic 'sociology of critique,' Boltanski now seeks to develop a third approach, overcoming the weaknesses of both. The result is a powerful conception of critique, grounded in the radical uncertainty that underlies social life and in the contradictory efforts of institutions to defuse it. On Critique seals his reputation as the leading philosophical sociologist of our era." Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research "With surprising sociological imagination, Boltanski shows how the critique of institutions is based on the everyday experience of a discrepancy between reality and the world, between what is socially defined and what could be possible in an undefined way. Without intending to, Boltanski revitalizes Adorno's insights in a sociological manner. This book is to be read by everyone interested in the future of critical theory." Axel Honneth, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt Read more...

