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The institution of critique and the critique of institutions
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The authors argue that Boltanski's pragmatic sociology makes an important contribution to two central concerns of critical theory: the empirical analysis of the contradictions and conflicts of critical theories, and the analysis of conflicts among critical theories.Abstract:
My paper argues that Luc Boltanski’s pragmatic sociology makes an important contribution to two central concerns of critical theory: the empirical analysis of the contradictions and conflicts of ca...read more
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Debating Humanity: Towards a Philosophical Sociology
TL;DR: Debating Humanity as discussed by the authors explores sociological and philosophical efforts to delineate key features of humanity that identify us as members of the human species and defends a universalistic principle of humanity as vital to any adequate understanding of social life.
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On Justification and Critique: Luc Boltanski’s Pragmatic Sociology and International Relations
TL;DR: Boltanski's pragmatic sociology is mainly inspired by pragmatism and ethnomethodology, but it is still concerned with sociology as a critical project of emancipation as discussed by the authors, which can greatly advance international political sociology by further developing a practice theoretical account which reconciles Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and Pierre Bourdieu's praxeology.
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The rise of the randomistas: on the experimental turn in international aid
TL;DR: In recent years, the use of experimental methodologies has emerged as a central means of evaluating international aid interventions as mentioned in this paper, and randomized control trials (randomized control trials) have been used to evaluate the effectiveness of aid interventions.
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The Crises of Democratic Capitalism
TL;DR: The authors argue that the present crisis can only be fully understood in terms of the ongoing, inherently conflictual transformation of the social formation we call "democratic capitalism" and that the "Great Recession" and the subsequent near-collapse of public finances as a manifestation of a basic underlying tension in the political-economic configuration of advanced-capitalist societies; a tension which makes disequilibrium and instability the rule rather than the exception, and which has found expression in a historical succession of disturbances within the socioeconomic order.
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After Justification Repertoires of Evaluation and the Sociology of Modernity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the moral and political sociology developed by the research group around Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thevenot from its gradual dissociation from the tradition of critical sociology during the 1980s to the present.
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Beyond Communication. A Critical Study of Axel Honneth's Social Philosophy
TL;DR: Beyond Communication as discussed by the authors is the first full-scale study of Honneth's work, covering the whole range of his writings, from his first sociological articles to the latest publications.