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The Spirit of Luc Boltanski: Essays on the ‘Pragmatic Sociology of Critique
Simon Susen,Bryan S. Turner +1 more
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Boltanski is widely regarded as one of the most influential French sociologists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as mentioned in this paper, and is a leading figure of the "pragmatic" tradition within contemporary social and political thought.Abstract:
[Extract] Luc Boltanski is widely regarded as one of the most influential French sociologists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He is one of the leading figures of the ‘pragmatic’ tradition within contemporary social and political thought. More specifically, he is – along with Laurent Thevenot – one of the founding figures of an approach that he himself characterizes as the ‘pragmatic sociology of critique’.read more
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