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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

Meanwhile, the authors' antidote to the American sicknessa quest for democratic community that draws on our diverse civic and religious traditionshas contributed to a vigorous scholarly and popular debate. Attention has been focused on forms of social organization, be it civil society, democratic communitarianism, or associative democracy, that can humanize the market and the administrative state. In their new Introduction the authors relate the argument of their book both to the current realities of American society and to the growing debate about the country's future. With this new edition one of the most influential books of recent times takes on a new immediacy.\

Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life

The End of History and the Last Man

In the present paper a research has been done on the essay ‘Can the Subaltern Speak’ by’ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’. It has been explained into much simpler language about what the author conveys for better understanding and further references. Also the criticism has been done by various critiques from various sources which is helpful from examination point of view. The paper has been divided into various contexts with an introduction and the conclusions. Also the references has been written that depicts the sources of criticism.

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Can the Subaltern Speak

The Fragility of Reality: Luc Boltanski in Conversation with Juliette Rennes and Simon Susen

Segregation—which is sustained and reinforced by practices and structures of exclusivity—has been, and continues to be, a noticeable characteristic not only of US-American society but also of US-American sociology. Indeed, ‘at least until the 1960, […] two distinct institutionally organized traditions of sociological thought—one black and one white’—have shaped Anglo-American discourse. Yet, the latter has largely eclipsed—if not systematically effaced—the former, almost to such an extent that one may get the misleading impression that non-white US sociology has never really existed in the first place. Challenging this misconception, it is essential to recognize that sociology—in the USA and beyond—has been significantly shaped by numerous black scholars, such as W. E. B. Du Bois, E. Franklin Frazier, and Oliver Cromwell Cox—to mention only three prominent examples. These—and, arguably, many other—‘African American Pioneers of Sociology’ have been systematically excluded from the US sociological canon, as if they were unworthy of being treated as fully fledged members of the Anglo-American community of social-scientific researchers.

Canonicity and Exclusivity

In this chapter, Patrick Baert offers a detailed reply to Simon Susen’s review of The Existentialist Moment: The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual. More specifically, Baert defends his proposal for a positioning theory, arguing that it equips us with a powerful explanatory framework for the sociological study of intellectuals. Even if the label ‘positioning theory’ may suggest otherwise, Baert’s version of this approach constitutes a comprehensive research programme, rather than a merely theoretical endeavour. As such, it can be regarded as a way of conducting research that pays close attention to the relationship between intellectual interventions and the meanings that these interventions acquire within socio-political contexts. This type of inquiry, then, requires an in-depth understanding not only of intellectuals but also of the broader milieu in which intellectuals operate.

The Existentialist Moment Defended: A Reply to Simon Susen

La fragilité de la réalité: Entretien avec Luc Boltanski

This Introduction contains a brief summary of the key themes, issues, and controversies covered in each of the following chapters.

Simon Susen

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The Fragility of Reality: Luc Boltanski in Conversation with Juliette Rennes and Simon Susen

Canonicity and Exclusivity

The Existentialist Moment Defended: A Reply to Simon Susen

La fragilité de la réalité: Entretien avec Luc Boltanski

The Spirit of Luc Boltanski: Chapter Outline, in The Spirit of Luc Boltanski: Essays on the ‘Pragmatic Sociology of Critique’