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The new spirit of capitalism / Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello ; translated by Gregory Elliott.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: London : Verso 2007Description: xlvii, 601 p. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781844671656
  • 9781844671656
Uniform titles:
  • Nouvel esprit du capitalisme. English
Subject(s):
Contents:
The emergence of a new ideological configuration. Management discourse in the 1990s ; The formation of the projective city -- The transformation of capitalism and the neutralization of critique. 1968 : crisis and revival of capitalism ; Dismantling the world of work ; Undermining the defences of the world of work -- The new spirit of capitalism and the new forms of critique. The revival of the social critique ; The test of the artistic critique -- Conclusion : the force of critique -- Postscript : sociology contra fatalism.
Summary: In this major work, sociologists Boltanski and Chiapello ask why anti-capitalist critique seems so impotent in the face of new forms of market-oriented business practice, suggesting that we should be addressing the crisis of critique by examining the assumptions on which it is based.
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This translation originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 559-587) and index.

The emergence of a new ideological configuration. Management discourse in the 1990s ; The formation of the projective city -- The transformation of capitalism and the neutralization of critique. 1968 : crisis and revival of capitalism ; Dismantling the world of work ; Undermining the defences of the world of work -- The new spirit of capitalism and the new forms of critique. The revival of the social critique ; The test of the artistic critique -- Conclusion : the force of critique -- Postscript : sociology contra fatalism.

In this major work, sociologists Boltanski and Chiapello ask why anti-capitalist critique seems so impotent in the face of new forms of market-oriented business practice, suggesting that we should be addressing the crisis of critique by examining the assumptions on which it is based.

Translated from the French.

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