On Justification: Economies of WorthA 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. |
Contents
The Social Sciences and the Legitimacy of Agreement | 25 |
The Critique of Sociologys Lack of Realism | 26 |
A Different Social Metaphysics | 27 |
Political Metaphysics as a Social Science | 28 |
The Question of Agreement | 31 |
Association and Forms of Generality | 32 |
The Order of the General and the Particular | 35 |
The Requirement of General Agreement and the Legitimacy of Order | 37 |
Causes of Discord and the Transport of Worths | 219 |
Clashes and Denunciations | 223 |
The Monstrosity of Composite Setups | 225 |
Setting Up Situations That Hold Together | 228 |
The Humanity of an Equitable Judgment | 231 |
Knowing How to Close and Open Ones Eyes | 232 |
THE CRITICAL MATRIX | 237 |
Critiques from the Domestic World | 241 |
The Reality Test and Prudent Judgment | 40 |
The Foundation of Agreement in political philosophy The example of the Market Polity | 43 |
A Social Bond Based on an inclinationtoward Exchange in Ones Own Interest | 44 |
Individuals in Concert in Their Lust for Goods | 48 |
The Sympathetic Disposition and the Position of Impartial Spectator | 53 |
THE POLITIES | 63 |
Political Orders and a model of Justice | 65 |
Political Philosophies of the Common Good | 66 |
The Polity Model | 74 |
Eugenics | 80 |
Political Forms of Worth | 83 |
The Domestic Polity | 90 |
The Polity of Fame | 98 |
The Civic Polity | 107 |
The Industrial Polity | 118 |
THE COMMON WORLDS | 125 |
Judgment put to the test Situated Judgment | 127 |
The Polity Extended to a Common World | 130 |
Tests | 133 |
Reporting on Situations | 138 |
A Framework for Analyzing the Common Worlds | 140 |
The Moral Sense and the Sense of What Is Natural | 144 |
The Arts of Living in Different Worlds | 148 |
THE SIX WORLDS | 159 |
The Domestic World | 164 |
The World of Fame | 178 |
The Civic World | 185 |
The Market World | 193 |
The Industrial World | 203 |
CRITIQUES | 213 |
World in conflict Judgments in question | 215 |
Critiques from the World of Fame | 247 |
Critiques from the Civic World | 251 |
Critiques from the Market World | 261 |
Critiques from the Industrial World | 269 |
ASSUAGING CRITICAL TENSIONS | 275 |
Comprimising for the common good | 277 |
The Fragility of Compromises | 278 |
Denunciation Supported by Compromise | 282 |
Composing Compromises and Forming Politics | 283 |
Toward a CivicIndustrial Polity | 285 |
FIGURES OF COMPROMISE | 293 |
Compromises Involving the Domestic World | 304 |
Compromises Involving the World of Fame | 317 |
Compromises Involving the Civic World | 325 |
Compromises Involving the Market World | 332 |
RELATIVTZATION | 336 |
Insinuation | 338 |
Flight from Justification | 339 |
Relativism | 340 |
Violence and Justification | 343 |
Toward Apragmatics of reflection | 347 |
Determining the Appropriate Action in Light of a Snag | 348 |
From Anger to Crisis | 350 |
The Moment of Truth in Judgment | 351 |
The Tension of Judgment and the Qualification of Ungraspable Persons | 352 |
Judgment between Power and Oblivion | 354 |
The Humane Use of Judgment and Tolerance in Action | 355 |
Knowledge about Actions | 356 |
Notes | 359 |
Work cited | 375 |
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