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  • Mysteries and Conspiracies

    Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies

    by Luc Boltanski ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • On Critique

    A Sociology of Emancipation

    by Luc Boltanski ...
    The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientific project? Or is critique the ultimate goal of sociology, without which the latter would be a futile activity disconnected from the concerns of ordinary people? This issue has underpinned two divergent theoretical orientations that can be found in ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Enrichment

    A Critique of Commodities

    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    This book offers a major new account of modern capitalism and of the ways in which value and wealth are created today. Boltanski and Esquerre argue that capitalism in the West has recently undergone a fundamental transformation characterized by de-industrialization, on the one hand, and, on the other, by the increased exploitation of certain resources that, while not entirely new, have taken on ... Read more

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  • The New Spirit of Capitalism

    Translated by Gregory Elliott ...
    New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalismIn this established classic, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello get to the heart of contemporary capitalism. Delving deep into the latest management texts informing the thinking of employers, the authors trace the contours of a new spirit of capitalism. They argue that beginning in the mid-1970s, capitalism ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Making of Public Space

    News, Events and Opinions in the Twenty-First Century

    This new book by Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre is a highly original analysis of the two key processes that shape the contemporary public sphere. On the one hand, there are the processes of news provision which select out a range of facts and events and bring them to the attention of a large number of people who have not, for the most part, experienced them directly. On the other hand, there ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • On Justification

    Economies of Worth

    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Foetal Condition

    A Sociology of Engendering and Abortion

    by Luc Boltanski ...
    Abortion is a contentious issue in social life but it has rarely been subjected to careful scrutiny in the social sciences. While the legalization of abortion has brought it into the public domain, it still remains a sensitive topic in many cultures, often hidden from view and rarely spoken about, consigned to a shadowy existence.Drawing on reports gathered from hospital settings and in-depth ... Read more

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  • From Extreme Violence to the Problem of Civility

    A Selection from Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy

    Translated by G.M. Goshgarian ...
    In this impassioned argument, Étienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of violence drawn from contemporary life, Balibar tests the limits of political philosophy to formulate new, productive conceptions of war, revolution, sovereignty, and class. Balibar explores ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Foucault

    Edited by Gary Gutting ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society. He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins of modern medical and social scientific disciplines. These studies have raised fundamental questions about the nature of human knowledge and its ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir

    Edited by Laura Hengehold, Nancy Bauer ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
    Winner of the 2018 Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title!The work of Simone de Beauvoir has endured and flowered in the last two decades, thanks primarily to the lasting influence of The Second Sex on the rise of academic discussions of gender, sexuality, and old age. Now, in this new Companion dedicated to her life and writings, an international assembly of prominent scholars, essayists, ... Read more

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  • Nomadic Subjects

    Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory

    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    For more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political theory. Rosi Braidotti's creative style vividly renders a productive crisis of modernity. From a feminist perspective, she recasts embodiment, sexual ... Read more

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