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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 Spirit of Luc Boltanski: Sociology of Critique or Critical Theory? Luc Boltanski and Axel Honneth in Conversation with Robin Celikates

'A Critical Encounter Between John Holloway and Simon Susen' – This interview took place on 19th September 2012 at City University London.

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Change the World by Cracking Capitalism? A Critical Encounter between John Holloway and Simon Susen

I am enormously grateful to Gregor McLennan for commenting on my book The ‘postmodern turn’ in the social sciences (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Furthermore, I am indebted to the editors of the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology for providing me with the opportunity to respond to his remarks. In my Reply, I shall focus on some central issues raised by McLennan in his thoughtful review article.

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Following the Footprints of the “Postmodern Turn”: A Reply to Gregor McLennan

In this chapter, Simon Susen provides an in-depth review of Patrick Baert’s The Existentialist Moment: The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015), focusing on the theoretical dimensions underpinning the analysis developed in this book. The chapter is divided into two parts. In the first part, Susen gives a detailed, and largely sympathetic, overview of Baert’s approach, drawing attention to its main conceptual and methodological contributions to the sociological study of intellectuals. In the second part, Susen grapples with the limitations and shortcomings of Baert’s approach, especially with respect to its plea for a paradigm shift from a ‘vocabulary of intentions’ to a ‘vocabulary of effects’ in the sociology of intellectuals. The chapter concludes with a brief reflection on the role that intellectuals may play in shaping the development of society.

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Reflections on Patrick Baert’s The Existentialist Moment: The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual

This essay provides an in-depth discussion of Patrick Baert and Filipe Carreira da Silva's Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond.

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Comments on Patrick Baert and Filipe Carreira da Silva's Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond – Towards a ‘Hermeneutics-Inspired Pragmatism’?

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The Spirit of Luc Boltanski: Sociology of Critique or Critical Theory? Luc Boltanski and Axel Honneth in Conversation with Robin Celikates

Change the World by Cracking Capitalism? A Critical Encounter between John Holloway and Simon Susen

Following the Footprints of the “Postmodern Turn”: A Reply to Gregor McLennan

Reflections on Patrick Baert’s The Existentialist Moment: The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual

Comments on Patrick Baert and Filipe Carreira da Silva's Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond – Towards a ‘Hermeneutics-Inspired Pragmatism’?