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Luc Boltanski - Love and Justice as Competences - 9780745649108 - V9780745649108
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Love and Justice as Competences

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Description for Love and Justice as Competences Paperback. * A major new book by one of the world s leading sociologists. * Forms the basis for the path-breaking work that Boltanski has developed over the past 20 years, work that has examined the moral foundations of society in and through the forms of everyday conflict. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 520.

People care a great deal about justice. They protest and engage in confrontations with others when their sense of justice is affronted or disturbed. When they do this, they don’t generally act in a strategic or calculating way but use arguments that claim a general validity. Disputes are commonly regulated by these ‘regimes of justice’ implicit in everyday social life. But justice is not the only regime that governs action. There are some actions that are selfless and gratuitous, and that belong to what might be called a regime of ‘peace’ or ‘love’. In the course of their everyday lives, ... Read more

In Love and Justice as Competences, Boltanski lays out this highly original framework for analysing the action of individuals as they pursue their day-to-day lives. The framework outlined in this important book is the basis for the path-breaking work that he has developed over the last twenty years – work that has examined the moral foundations of society in and through the forms of everyday conflict. For anyone who wants to understand what a critical sociology might mean today, this book is an essential text.

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Product Details

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
519g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745649108
SKU
V9780745649108
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Luc Boltanski
Luc Boltanski is Professor of Sociology at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris

Reviews for Love and Justice as Competences
'When an injustice is committed, most of us simmer in anger and indignation and feel compelled to denounce the perpetrators. Yet, despite its widespread character, the actual social and emotional experience of injustice has hardly been studied. This book is the first major sociological study of denunciation, that most ordinary act present in personal and ... Read more

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