On justification : economies of worth / Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thévenot ; translated by Catherine Porter.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-389).

Preface: How We Wrote This Book -- Generalizing Field Observations and Producing Statistical Equivalency -- Ordinary Identification and Scientific Qualification -- From Comparison to Judgment -- Construction of Proofs and Tension between the General And the Particular -- The Tension between Different Forms of Generality -- Attention to Critical Operations -- Generality and the Common Good: Concepts of Worth in Political Philosophy -- The Search for a Common Model -- The Social Bond Put to the Test of Things -- The Line of Argument -- Part One: The Imperative to Justify -- The Social Sciences and the Legitimacy of Agreement -- The Critique of Sociology's Lack of Realism -- Individualism: A Different Social Metaphysics -- Political Metaphysics as a Social Science -- The Question of Agreement -- Association and Forms of Generality -- The Order of the General and the Particular -- The Requirement of General Agreement and the Legitimacy of Order -- The Reality Test and Prudent Judgment -- The Foundation of Agreement in Political Philosophy: The Example of the Market Polity -- A Social Bond Based on an Inclination toward Exchange in One's Own Interest -- Individuals in Concert in Their Lust for Goods -- The Sympathetic Disposition and the Position of Impartial Spectator -- Part Two: The Polities -- Political Orders and a Model of Justice -- Political Philosophies of the Common Good -- The Polity Model -- An Illegitimate Order: Eugenics -- Political Forms of Worth -- The Inspired Polity -- The Domestic Polity -- The Polity of Fame -- The Civic Polity -- The Industrial Polity -- Part Three: The Common Worlds -- Judgment Put to the Test -- Situated Judgment -- The Polity Extended to a Common World -- Tests -- Reporting on Situations -- A Framework for Analyzing the Common Worlds -- The Sense of the Common: The Moral Sense and the Sense of What Is Natural -- The Arts of Living in Different Worlds -- The Six Worlds -- The Inspired World -- The Domestic World- -- The World of Fame -- The Civic World -- The Market World -- The Industrial World -- Part Four: Critiques -- Worlds in Conflict, Judgments in Question -- Unveiling -- Causes of Discord and the Transport of Worths -- Clashes and Denunciations -- The Monstrosity of Composite Set-Ups -- Setting up Situations that Hold Together -- The Humanity of an Equitable Judgment -- Free Will: Knowing How to Close and Open One's Eyes -- The Critical Matrix -- Critiques from the Inspired World -- Critiques from the Domestic World -- Critiques from the World of Fame -- Critiques from the Civic World -- Critiques from the Market World -- Critiques from the Industrial World -- Part Five: Assuaging Critical Tensions -- Compromising for the Common Good -- Beyond Testing to Compromising -- The Fragility of Compromises -- An Example of a Complex Figure: Denunciation Supported by Compromise -- Composing Compromises and Forming Polities -- Developing a State Compromise: Toward a Civic-Industrial Polity -- Figures of Compromise -- Compromises Involving the World of Inspiration -- Compromises Involving the Domestic World -- Compromises Involving the World of Fame -- Compromises Involving the Civic World -- Compromises Involving the Market World -- Relativization -- Private Arrangements -- Insinuation -- Flight from Justification -- Relativism -- Violence and Justification -- Afterword: Toward a Pragmatics of Reflection -- The Place of Justifications in the Gamut of Actions -- Below the Level of Public Judgment: Determining the Appropriate Action in Light of a Snag -- From Anger to Crisis -- The Moment of Truth in Judgment -- The Tension of Judgment and the Qualification of Ungraspable Persons -- Judgment between Power and Oblivion -- The Humane Use of Judgment and Tolerance in Action -- Knowledge about Actions -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

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