Author: Publisher: Editions Bréal
ISBN: 274952573X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Editions Bréal
ISBN: 274952573X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
The Resources of Critique
Author: Alex CallinicosPublisher: Polity
ISBN: 9780745631615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Social criticism has enjoyed a renaissance in the past few years. The anti-globalization protests at Seattle and Genoa and the great marches against the war in Iraq have put contestation of capitalism and imperialism back on the political and intellectual agenda. But how does social critique situate itself philosophically today, after the marginalization of Marxism and the impact of postmodernism? In The Resources of Critique, Alex Callinicos seeks to address this question systematically. He does so, in the first part, by surveying some of the most influential contemporary critical theorists Alain Badiou, Jacques Bidet, Luc Boltanski, Pierre Bourdieu, Eve Chiapello, Jürgen Habermas, Antonio Negri and Slavoj Žižek. The limitations of all these theorists perspectives prompts Callinicos in the second part of the book to outline an alternative approach whose main elements are a critical realist ontology, a Marxist theory of social contradiction, and an egalitarian conception of justice. The main thrust of his argument is to show that Marx's critique of political economy remains inescapable for anyone seeking to challenge the existing world order but only if it maintains an open but rigorous dialogue with other critical perspectives. The Resources of Critique is, above all, a contribution to this dialogue.
The Other Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction
Author: Olivier DelersPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611495822
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
The rise of the novel paradigm—and the underlying homology between the rise of a bourgeois middle class and the coming of age of a new literary genre—continues to influence the way we analyze economic discourse in the eighteenth-century French novel. Characters are often seen as portraying bourgeois values, even when historiographical evidence points to the virtual absence of a self-conscious and coherent bourgeoisie in France in the early modern period. Likewise, the fact that the nobility was a dynamic and diverse group whose members had learned to think in individualistic and meritocratic terms as a result of courtly politics is often ignored. The Other Rise of the Novel calls for a radical revision of how realism, the language of self-interest and commercial exchanges, and idealized noble values interact in the early modern novel. It focuses on two novels from the seventeenth century, Furetière’s Roman bourgeois and Lafayette’s Princesse de Clèves and four novels from the eighteenth century, Prévost’s Manon Lescaut, Graffigny’s Lettres d’une Péruvienne, Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse and Sade’s Les infortunes de la vertu. It argues that eighteenth-century French fiction does not reflect material culture mimetically and that character action is best analyzed by focusing on the social and discursive exchanges staged by the text, rather than by trying to create parallels between specific behavior and actual historical changes. The novel produces its own reality by transforming characters and their stories into alternative social models, different articulations of how individuals should define their economic relations to others. The representation of interpersonal relations often highlights personal conceptions of private interest that cannot be easily reconciled with the traditional narrative of a transition towards economic modernity. Realism, then, is not only about verisimilar storytelling and psychological depth: it is an epistemological questioning about the type of access to reality that a particular genre can give its readers.
L'"Esprit" du capitalisme
Author: Max WeberPublisher: Éditions Payot
ISBN: 2228924024
Category : Political Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 89
Book Description
L’esprit du capitalisme, ce ne sont pas ses doctrines ni son idéologie, mais une sensibilité culturelle, un style moral, une psychologie. C’est moins le marché, le profit, le calcul, et plus un tempérament. Il intègre de l’irrationnel, donc du risque et de l’incertitude. Tel est le thème du célèbre chapitre 2 de L’éthique protestante et l’esprit du capitalisme (1904), chef-d’œuvre de Max Weber, l’un des trois pères, avec Simmel et Durkheim, de la sociologie moderne. Le texte de Weber est suivi, en postface, d’un essai d’Arjun Appadurai, "Le fantôme dans la machine financière", où l’auteur d’Après le colonialisme montre combien la pensée de Weber permet de comprendre le capitalisme financier de ces dernières décennies.
Théorie de la communication et éthique relationnelle (Collection forme et sens)
Author: FOURNOUT OlivierPublisher: Lavoisier
ISBN: 2746282968
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Théorie de la communication et éthique relationnelle montre, à travers des études de cas, que les discours sur la communication sont marqués d'une structure relationnelle qui prend son origine dans la perception de l'espace, dans le langage, dans l'esprit, mais aussi dans les formes graphiques et mises en page textuelles en circulation dans la société. Cet ouvrage met cette matrice relationnelle à l'épreuve, notamment, de la pensée systémique, de la complexité en science, du dialogisme en littérature, du traitement journalistique des conflits, de l'éthique managériale, des méthodes d'apprentissage de la communication, de campagnes de publicité, d'oeuvres d'artistes, de scénographies, de communications par internet.
Max Weber
Author: Laurent FleuryPublisher: QUE SAIS-JE
ISBN: 2715414234
Category : Social Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 106
Book Description
Lorsque Max Weber meurt subitement à Munich en 1920, à l’âge de cinquante-six ans, sa mort, après celles de Durkheim et Simmel, marque la fin d’une première génération de sociologues. L’auteur de L’Éthique protestante et l’esprit du capitalisme apparaît en effet comme l’un des fondateurs de la sociologie et comme l’un des grands penseurs de la modernité et de ses ambivalences. Analysant la révolution industrielle, il se révèle à la fois fondateur d’une sociologie économique et, en tant que théoricien de l’État, de la domination et de la légitimité, de la sociologie politique. Laurent Fleury se propose de restituer la singularité et la fécondité de l’œuvre de Max Weber, à travers l’intrication des questions théoriques qu’elle soulève, de ses résultats empiriques et de ses contributions méthodologiques.
Obsolescent Capitalism
Author: Samir AminPublisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781842773215
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
A political autobiography from one of the 21st century's most prominent radical intellectuals, this title provides unique insights into how radical movements have evolved in response to global capitalism.
Storia della storiografia
Author: Publisher: Editoriale Jaca Book
ISBN: 9788816720510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
An Intellectual History of Liberal Catholicism in Western Europe, 1789-1870
Author: Aude Attuel-HalladePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135037105X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This volume probes and deciphers the tensions and contradictions that underlie modern European Liberal Catholicism. Beginning with the French revolution and looking at dialogues between European 'public moralists', the book discusses the ways in which liberal Catholics loosened their bonds with religion, all the while relying on it. It reflects on how and why they promoted a post-revolutionary state and society based on religious dogma and morality, and what new liberal order and socio-political and religious models they proposed. Beyond the analysis of the work of these Catholic intellectuals, the question of their conceiving a specific liberal approach through Catholicism is also investigated. More generally, it prompts a vital reappraisal of the political, ideological and philosophical pressures that the religious question caused in the redefinition of Western European post-revolutionary liberalism.
Catholic Mediations in Southern Europe
Author: Xabier ItçainaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429808852
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Investigating the role played by religious actors in sociopolitical issues as a manifestation of the invisible politics of religion, this book concentrates on the social economy, support to migrants, the fight against social exclusion and pacifist campaigns, where religious actors have played discreet but structuring roles. In the European context, politico-religious matters have been reduced in two ways: first, a reduction of identity with religion being transformed into a heritage in the form of a minimal sense of belonging; and second, the media focus on the most fundamentalist currents within all religions. This book responds by proposing an alternative perspective with a focus on Southern European Catholicism and a comparison between Italian, Spanish and French subnational territories. In a period of polarized relations between religion and politics, there is a Catholic action repertoire which avoids this binary confrontation and which, in contrast, is characterized by its mediating dimension. The Catholic mediation repertoire receives little publicity and is expressed in a discreet but structuring way to address different public problems. An important contribution to the literature, this book will interest scholars and upper-level students working on religion and politics, mediation and peace studies, local policy making and comparative approaches to Southern European society and politics.
