Lecture:
“The new spirit of capitalism and its values” Luc BOLTANSKI, EHESS, Paris
Luc Boltanski is the leading figure in the new "pragmatics" school of French sociology. He is a professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris and is the founder of the Centre de Sociologie Politique et Morale.
Boltanski's recent publications include: The New Spirit of Capitalism (with Eve Chiapello), 2007; On Justification: Economies of Worth (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology), 2006 and Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Chair: Laura RIVAL, Linacre College
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PRAISE FOR "THE NEW SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM":
“A wide-ranging, nuanced sociological inquiry into the nature of contemporary work.” — Choice
“[A] vast and ambitious work, which is inscribed in a great tradition of theoretical and critical sociology.” — Le Monde
“This magnificent book [is] the sociology of a whole generation which capitalism caught on the wrong foot. In more than 800 pages which one devours like a great novel, the book furnishes new weapons for the renewal of the Left.” — Libération
“This book will no doubt come to be regarded as a contemporary classic of political economy and political sociology.” — Political Studies Review
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