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Last update: Simon Smith, M.A., Ph.D. (20.09.2022)
The course is particularly suited to those with an interest in discourse studies and socio-linguistics. |
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Last update: Simon Smith, M.A., Ph.D. (20.09.2022)
Obligatory: Boltanski, Luc (2011 [2009]) On Critique: A Sociology of Emancipation, trans. Gregory Elliott, Cambridge: Polity. Boltanski, Luc and Laurent Thévenot (2006 [1991]) On Justification: Economies of Worth, trans. Catherine Porter, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Recommended: Basaure, Mauro (2011) An Interview with Luc Boltanski: Criticism and the Expansion of Knowledge, European Journal of Social Theory 14(3): 361–381. Bessy, Christian & Francis Chateauraynaud (2015) Being attentive to things: Pragmatic approaches to authenticity. Postscript to the second edition of Experts et Faussures: pour une sociologie de la perception. Paris: Pétra. Blokker, Paul (2011) ‘Pragmatic Sociology: Theoretical Evolvement and Empirical Application’, European Journal of Social Theory 14(3): 251–261. Blokker, Paul and Andrea Brighenti (2011) An interview with Laurent Thévenot: On engagement, critique, commonality, and power, European Journal of Social Theory 14(3): 383-400. Boltanski L (1984) La dénonciation. Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 51: 3–46. Boltanski L (1990) L'amour et la justice comme compétences. Trois essais de sociologie de l'action. Paris: Métailie. Boltanski, Luc (1993) La souffrance à distance, Paris: Métailié. Boltanski, Luc (1999 [1993]) Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics, trans. Graham Burchell, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Boltanski, Luc (2004) La condition foetale : Une sociologie de l’engendrement et de l’avortement, Paris: Gallimard. Boltanski, Luc (2009) De la critique : Précis de sociologie de l’émancipation, Paris: Gallimard. Boltanski, Luc (2012) Énigmes et complots : Une enquête à propos d’enquêtes, Paris: Gallimard. Boltanski, Luc (2013 [2004]) The Foetal Condition: A Sociology of Engendering and Abortion, trans. Catherine Porter, Cambridge: Polity. Boltanski, Luc (2014 [2012]) Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies, trans. Catherine Porter, Cambridge: Polity. Boltanski, Luc and Axel Honneth (2009) ‘Soziologie der Kritik oder Kritische Theorie? EinGespräch mit Robin Celikates’, in Rahel Jaeggi and Tilo Wesche (eds.) Was ist Kritik?,Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, pp. 81–114. Boltanski, Luc and Ève Chiapello (1999) Le nouvel esprit du capitalisme, Paris: Gallimard. Boltanski, Luc and Ève Chiapello (2005 [1999]) The New Spirit of Capitalism, trans. Gregory Elliott, London: Verso. Boltanski, Luc and Laurent Thévenot (1991) De la justification : Les économies de la grandeur, Paris: Gallimard. Boltanski, Luc and Laurent Thévenot (1999) ‘The Sociology of Critical Capacity’, European Journal of Social Theory 2(3): 359–377. Callinicos, Alex (2006) The Resources of Critique, Cambridge: Polity. Celikates, Robin (2009) Kritik als soziale Praxis. Gesellschaftliche Selbstverständigung und kritische Theorie, Frankfurt am Main: Campus. Honneth, Axel (2010) ‘Dissolutions of the Social: On the Social Theory of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot’, Constellations 17(3): 376–389. Jagd, Søren (2011) ‘Pragmatic Sociology and Competing Orders of Worth in Organizations’, European Journal of Social Theory 14(3): 343–359. Sharon, Tamar (2018) When digital health meets digital capitalism, how many common goods are at stake? Big Data & Society https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2053951718819032 Sharon, Tamar (2021) From hostile worlds to multiple spheres: towards a normative pragmatics of justice for the Googlization of health. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 24, pp.315–327. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-021-10006-7 Siffels, Lotje, Sharon, Tamar, & Hoffman, Andrew (2021) The participatory turn in health and medicine: The rise of the civic and the need to ‘give back' in data-intensive medical research. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 8:306, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00979-4 Silber, Ilana F. (2011) ‘Emotions as Regime of Justification? The Case of Civic Anger’, European Journal of Social Theory 14(3): 301–320. Thévenot, Laurent (1990) ‘L’action qui convient’, in Patrick Pharo and Louis Quéré (eds.) Les formes de l’action, Paris: Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, pp. 39–69. Thévenot, Laurent (2006) L’action au pluriel : Sociologie des régimes d’engagement, Paris: La Découverte.
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Last update: Simon Smith, M.A., Ph.D. (20.09.2022)
This course is taught entirely online mainly via Moodle (dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=12299) In odd weeks there is a pre-recorded double lecture. In even weeks there is a reading group (on Zoom) in which we will study and discuss a book chapter or journal article. All students are expected to prepare for each reading group by reading the set text and are encouraged to actively participate in the discussions. |
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Last update: Simon Smith, M.A., Ph.D. (20.09.2022)
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Last update: Simon Smith, M.A., Ph.D. (20.09.2022)
Weekly schedule: 1. - 2. Introduction: From critical sociology to a sociology of critique 3. - 4.. Confirmation and critique: the concept of test (épreuve) 5. - 6. Judgement, qualification and evaluation as routine practices 7. - 8. Perception and intuition 9. - 10. Orders of worth as specifications of the common good 11. - 12. Existential tests and familiar regimes of engagement: the role of emotion and passion in critique
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