Luc Boltanski: 7 books

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,...

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...

New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalism In 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...

Eine »illegitime Kunst« nennen Bourdieu und seine Mitarbeiter die Fotografie. In der Tat gilt sie als »Zwitter«: als Alltagshandlung mit dem Anspruch einer Kunstanstrengung. Welchen Zwecken gehorcht die Fotografie? Sind Fotografien Bilder in dem strengen Sinne, mit dem dieses Wort in aller Regel...

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...

Dans cet ouvrage, Bruno Frère montre comment l'imaginaire associationniste de l'économie qualifiée aujourd'hui de " solidaire " plonge ses racines profondes dans les mouvements et les pensées révolutionnaires libertaires qui ont agité la France du milieu du XIXe siècle. Ces mouvements...

"Il s’agissait donc de rassembler une information sérieuse et aisée à traduire visuellement ; de ressaisir les traits discriminants de la société suisse et de repérer les points sensibles de son opinion ; d’établir enfin un tableau des principaux centres d’intérêt pouvant mobiliser...