CONTENTS

pp v-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-xxii

Preface

pp xxiii-xxx

Part I - Introductory Remarks

pp 1-2

Luc Boltanski: His Life and Work – An Overview

pp 3-28

Three Theories of Justice: Preliminary Reflections

pp 29-48

The Spirit of Luc Boltanski: Chapter Outline

pp 49-64

Part II - Luc Boltanski and (Post-) Classical Sociology

pp 65-66

1 - Figures of Descent from Classical Sociological Theory: Luc Boltanski

pp 67-88

Part III - Luc Boltanski and Pragmatism

pp 89-90

2 - Did You Say ‘Pragmatic’? Luc Boltanski's Sociology from a Pragmatist Perspective

pp 91-128

3 - Why (Not) Pragmatism?

pp 129-152

4 - The Moral Idealism of Ordinary People as a Sociological Challenge: Reflections on the French Reception of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot's On Justification

pp 153-170

Part IV - Luc Boltanski and Critique

pp 171-172

5 - Is There Such a Thing as a ‘Pragmatic Sociology of Critique’? Reflections on Luc Boltanski's On Critique

pp 173-210

6 - Strengths and Limitations of Luc Boltanski's On Critique

pp 211-234

7 - A Renewal of Social Theory That Remains Necessary: The Sociology of Critical Capacity Twenty Years After

pp 235-244

8 - Enlarging Conceptions of Testing Moments and Critical Theory: Economies of Worth, On Critique, and Sociology of Engagements

pp 245-262

Part V - Luc Boltanski and Critical Sociology

pp 263-264

9 - Pierre Bourdieu and the Early Luc Boltanski (1960–1975): Collective Ethos and Individual Difference

pp 265-292

10 - Beyond Pragmatic Sociology: A Theoretical Compromise between ‘Critical Sociology’ and the ‘Pragmatic Sociology of Critique’

pp 293-312

11 - Towards a Dialogue between Pierre Bourdieu's ‘Critical Sociology’ and Luc Boltanski's ‘Pragmatic Sociology of Critique’

pp 313-348

Part VI - Luc Boltanski and Political Sociology

pp 349-350

12 - The Promise of Pragmatic Sociology, Human Rights, and the State

pp 351-368

13 - ‘The Political’ in the ‘Pragmatic Sociology of Critique’: Reading Boltanski with Lefort and Castoriadis

pp 369-390

14 - Axel Honneth and Luc Boltanski at the Epicentre of Politics

pp 391-412

15 - The Civil Sphere and On Justification: Two Models of Public Culture

pp 413-424

16 - Luc Boltanski in Euroland

pp 425-444

17 - Reflections on the Indignation of the Disprivileged and the Underprivileged

pp 445-468