People care a great deal about justice. They protest and engage
in confrontations with others when their sense of justice is
affronted or disturbed. When they do this, they don't generally act
in a strategic or calculating way but use arguments that claim a
general validity. Disputes are commonly regulated by these 'regimes
of justice' implicit in everyday social life. But justice is not
the only regime that governs action. There are some actions that
are selfless and gratuitous, and that belong to what might be
called a regime of 'peace' or 'love'. In the course of their
everyday lives, people constantly move back and forth between these
two regimes, that of justice and that of love. And everyone also
has the capacity for violence, which arises when the regulation of
action within either of these regimes breaks down.
In "Love and Justice as Competences," Boltanski lays out this
highly original framework for analysing the action of individuals
as they pursue their day-to-day lives. The framework outlined in
this important book is the basis for the path-breaking work that he
has developed over the last twenty years - work that has examined
the moral foundations of society in and through the forms of
everyday conflict. For anyone who wants to understand what a
critical sociology might mean today, this book is an essential
text.
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