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On Justification Economies of Worth

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ISBN-10: 0691125163

ISBN-13: 9780691125169

Edition: 2006

Authors: Luc Boltanski, Laurent Th�venot, Catherine Porter, Laurent Th�venot

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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 Justificationis the first English translation of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Theacute;venot'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…    
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List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/16/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.13" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Preface
How We Wrote This Book 1 Generalizing Field Observations and Producing Statistical Equivalency 1 Ordinary Identification and Scientific Qualification
From Comparison to Judgment
Construction of Proofs and Tension between the General and the Particular
The Tension between Different Forms of Generality
Attention to Critical Operations
Generality and the Common Goo d: Concepts of Worth in Political Philosophy
The Search for a Common Model
The Social Bond Put to the Test of Things
The Line of Argument
The Imperative to Justify
The Social Sciences and the Legitimacy of Agreement
The Critique of Sociology's Lack of Realism
Individualis m: A Different Social Metaphysics
Political Metaphysics as a Social Science
The Question of Agreement
Association and Forms of Generality
The Order of the General and the Particular
The Requirement of General Agreement and the Legitimacy of Order
The Reality Test and Prudent Judgment
The Foundation of Agreement in Political Philosophy: The Example of the Market Polity
A Social Bond Based on an Inclination toward Exchange in One's Own Interest
Individuals in Concert in Their Lust for Goods
The Sympathetic Disposition and the Position of Impartial Spectator
The Polities
Political Orders and a Model of Justice
Political Philosophies of the Common Good 66 The Polity Model
An Illegitimate Orde r: Eugenics
Political Forms of Worth
The Inspired Polity
The Domestic Polity
The Polity of Fame
The Civic Polity
The Industrial Polity
The Common Worlds
Judgment Put to the Test
Situated Judgment
The Polity Extended to a Common World
Tests
Reporting on Situations
A Framework for Analyzing the Common Worlds
The Sense of the Commo n: The Moral Sense and the Sense of What Is Natural
The Arts of Living in Different Worlds
The Six Worlds
The Inspired World
The Domestic World
The World of Fame
The Civic World
The Market World
The Industrial World
Critiques
Worlds in Confiict, Judgments in Question
Unveiling
Causes of Discord and the Transport of Worths
Clashes and Denunciations
The Monstrosity of Composite Setups
Setting Up Situations that Hold Together
The Humanity of an Equitable Judgment
Free Wil l: Knowing How to Close and Open One's Eyes
EIGHT The Critical Matrix
Critiques from the Inspired World
Critiques from the Domestic World
Critiques from the World of Fame
Critiques from the Civic World
Critiques from the Market World
Critiques from the Industrial World
Assuaging Critical Tensions
Compromising for the Common Good
Beyond Testing to Compromising
The Fragility of Compromises
An Example of a Complex Figur e: Denunciation Supported by Compromise
Composing Compromises and Forming Polities
Developing a State Compromis e: Toward a Civic-Industrial Polity
Figures of Compromise
Compromises Involving the Inspired World
Compromises Involving the Domestic World
Compromises Involving the World of Fame
Compromises Involving the Civic World
Compromises Involving the Market World
Relativization
Private Arrangements
Insinuation
Flight from Justification
Relativism
Violence and Justification
Afterwor d: Toward a Pragmatics of Reflection
The Place of Justifications in the