Justice in reality: overcoming moral relativism in Luc Boltanski’s pragmatic sociology of critique
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...Orders of worth (Boltanski and Th evenot 2006) take an outside-in view on meaningful moments, examining how people critique and justify their experiences to others (Jensen 2018)....
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...…latest book translated into English, he further clarifies the concept of world: ‘By the world, I mean “everything that happens” – to borrowWittgenstein’s formulation – and even everything that might possibly happen – an “everything” that cannot be fully known and mastered’ (Boltanski 2014, 3)....
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...The idea is that Boltanski and Chiapello view capitalism as an amoral mechanism that seeks to satisfy ‘an imperative to unlimited accumulation of capital by formally peaceful means’ (Boltanski 2002, 7; Boltanski and Chiapello 2007, 4)....
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...…freedom from structures obtained with artistic critique also came with the challenge of re-establishing a regime of justification suitable for this new world of capitalism, that was to an ever-larger extent accommodating artistic critique (Boltanski 2002, 6–7; Boltanski and Chiapello 2007, 345)....
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...This compromise, with its tendency towards nepotism and free market reign, had according to its critics failed to deliver secure conditions for the proletariat, i.e. the workers and their families (Boltanski 2002, 6; Boltanski and Chiapello 2007, 88f, 92ff)....
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...This ideology is what Boltanski and Chiapello understands as the ‘spirit’ of capitalism – a concept borrowed from Max Weber’s views on the importance of a Protestant work ethic for the emergence of capitalism (Boltanski 2002, 7; Boltanski and Chiapello 2007, 10f)....
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...This new form of artistic critique had previously been reserved to circles of romantic intellectuals, but in the capitalist crisis of the late 1960s it played a role equal to that of social critique (Boltanski 2002, 8)....
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...The type of critique generated by truth tests echoes the concept of ‘immanent critique’ developed in the tradition of critical theory (cf. Stahl 2013, 375ff)....
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...Over recent years, French pragmatic sociology has developed into a successful research programme applied in several studies across the social sciences from welfare state studies (Kristensen 2013) and public management studies (Oldenhof, Postma, and Putters 2014) to health studies (Ceci and Purkis 2011; Hanrieder 2016) and educational studies (Garnier 2014)....
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...…into a successful research programme applied in several studies across the social sciences from welfare state studies (Kristensen 2013) and public management studies (Oldenhof, Postma, and Putters 2014) to health studies (Ceci and Purkis 2011; Hanrieder 2016) and educational studies (Garnier 2014)....
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