On Justification : : Economies of Worth / / Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thévenot.

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• VerfasserIn: Boltanski, Luc,; Thévenot, Laurent,
• TeilnehmendeR: Porter, Catherine.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

A vital and underappreciated dimension of social interaction is the way individuals justify their actions to others, instinctively drawing on their experience to appeal to principles they hope will command respect. Individuals, however, often misread situations, and many disagreements can be explained by people appealing, knowingly and unknowingly, to different principles. On Justification is the first English translation of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot's ambitious theoretical examination of these phenomena, a book that has already had a huge impact on French sociology and is likely to have a similar influence in the English-speaking world. In this foundational work of post-Bourdieu sociology, the authors examine a wide range of situations where people justify their actions. The authors argue that justifications fall into six main logics exemplified by six authors: civic (Rousseau), market (Adam Smith), industrial (Saint-Simon), domestic (Bossuet), inspiration (Augustine), and fame (Hobbes). The authors show how these justifications conflict, as people compete to legitimize their views of a situation.On Justification is likely to spark important debates across the social sciences.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE How We Wrote This Book -- PART ONE The imperative to justify -- One THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND THE LEGITIMACY OF AGREEMENT -- Two THE FOUNDATION OF AGREEMENT IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: THE EXAMPLE OF THE MARKET POLITY -- PART TWO The polities -- Three POLITICAL ORDERS AND A MODEL OF JUSTICE -- Four POLITICAL FORMS OF WORTH -- PART THREE the common worlds -- Five JUDGMENT PUT TO THE TEST -- Six THE SIX WORLDS -- PART FOUR critiques -- Seven WORLDS IN CONFLICT, JUDGMENTS IN QUESTION -- Eight THE CRITICAL MATRIX -- PART FIVE assuaging critical tensions -- Nine COMPROMISING FOR THE COMMON GOOD -- Ten FIGURES OF COMPROMISE -- Eleven RELATIVIZATION -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED