Luc Boltanski 訪台系列演講（台聯大文化研究國際中心支援系所演講活動公告）
法國當代重量級社會學家呂克‧波彤斯基 Luc Boltanski 要來台灣了，
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呂克˙波彤斯基 （Luc Boltanski ）為法國巴黎高等社會科學研究院（EHESS）教授。
7/23 University Tunghai, Department of Sociology
7/23 東海場: 謎團與陰謀：偵探小說、妄想症、與現代主體性的製造
這場演講以謎團、陰謀和調查為主題，試圖了解自十九世紀末、
這場演講的主要論點出自我的最新著作，波彤斯基《謎團與陰 謀：關於調查的調查》 （Enigmes et complots. Une enquête à propos d’enquêtes, Paris, Gallimard, 2012 ）（即將出版英譯本：Mysteries and Conspiracies, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2014, Forthcoming)
Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective novel, Paranoïa, and the Making of the Modern Subjectivity
This talk will address the thematics of mystery, conspiracy, and inquiry. It seeks to understand the prominent place these thematics have occupied in the representation of reality since the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses, first, on works belonging to two literary genres intended for a broad public in which these thematics have been featured: crime novels and spy novels. Then, by developing the thematics of inquiry (which is at the heart of crime fiction) and the thematics of conspiracy (the main subject of espionage fiction), I will veers toward questions that concern not only the representation of reality in popular literature but also the new ways of problematising reality that have accompanied the development of the human sciences. These sciences have made inquiry their principal instrument. With regards to the human and social sciences, I have drawn material from three fields. First, psychiatry: at the dawn of the twentieth century, psychiatry invented a new nosological entity, paranoia, one of whose chief symptoms is the tendency to undertake interminable inquiries. Second, political science, whose has taken up the problematics of paranoia and displaced it from the psychic to the social level, looking on the tendency to explain historical events in terms of ‘conspiracy theories’. Third, sociology confronted to the problem of ‘social’ causality as a specific form to explain the behavior of persons, groups or even the course of history.
(This lecture will be based on my last book, Enigmes et complots. Une enquête à propos d’enquêtes, Paris, Gallimard, 2012 (Mysteries and Conspiracies, Forthcoming publication at Cambridge, Polity Press, 2014).
7/24 University Tsinghua, Institute of Sociology
清大: 「朝向一種歐式新保守主義？--- 從正宗經濟學的形成到國族意識型態的更新」Towards an European Neo-conservatism? From the formation of an economy of authenticity to the renewal of nationalist ideologies
The implementation of neo-liberal policies in Europe, and their devastating results, have triggered, during the last ten years, numerous critical reactions, particularly in the intellectual and political fields. But this renewal of social critique has not yet had any concrete effect on the actions of the power elite, belonging to the left as well as to the right, whose members use the argument of “necessity” to justify their conservatism. On the other side, the critical stance has had only very weak support from the social movements and, particularly, the labor Unions, whose energies are absorbed by their efforts to survive. In the vacuum created by a demoralized Europe and by an ineffective social critique, there have emerged ideologies, coming from the extreme right and even, sometimes, from the left, that have shifted from the critique of economical neo-liberalism to the critique of political liberalism. They stress nationalism, supported by a strong State, and on the valorization of moral authority and tradition. They are, above all, strongly xenophobic and racist. One can see in the development of these ideologies the making of a kind of European neo-conservatism which, unlike the American neo-conservatism of the 1980-90’s, can present itself as “anti-capitalistic”.
This neo-conservatism is conditioned by socio-economic changes whose precise analysis seems particularly urgent. The first and most visible change is the decline of industry, which dismantles an “old” proletariat given over to unemployment and precariousness. The second change, no less important if less frequently noticed, is the development of new economic forms which create wealth by exploiting the patrimonialization of sites or “terroirs” whose “authentic” character is distorted by forms of commodification and/or through the extension of cultural industries of luxury brands. These two economic processes have political effects that promote reactionary and xenophobic positions. Groups and social classes whose interests are linked with industry accuse “foreigners” of “robbing” the work of the “real” French people. Groups and social classes involved in the process of patrimonialization accuse “foreigners” of polluting “authentic”, “ancestral” and national places and values.
The task of a leftist critique is then made more difficult by the necessity of a twofold orientation. It must go on with the critical analysis of neo-liberalism, but it must also be attentive to the reactionary drifts of certain attacks on liberalism.
7/25 Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica
中研院場：批判社會學與批判的社會學：一場「法式」批判之旅
這場演講中我將討論幾個自社會學這個行業肇始以來仍未塵埃落定的
這場演講的主要論點，可參見波彤斯基《論批判：解放的社會 學概論》英譯本（ On Critique: a sociology of emancipation, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011）（法文原著 De la critique. Précis de sociologie de l’émancipation, Paris, Gallimard, 2009）
Critical Sociology and Sociology of Critique. A Journey through French ‘style’ critique.
In that talk I will address questions which have been very unsettling for the sociological enterprise since its beginning, stemming from the very problematic relation between, on one hand, endeavours directed towards the making of scientific - i.e. objective or neutral -, descriptions of the social world, and, on the other, attempts aiming at modifying society by criticizing the state of affaires which has been depicted. I will, particularly, work out this question by comparing two theoretical approaches, implemented in French sociology during the last forty years, which have proposed two different path in order to manage passages between scientific exigencies and critical stances. Namely, first, what has been call Critical sociology - mainly represented by the work of Pierre Bourdieu -, implemented during the sixties and seventies, and, secondly, another stream, developed more recently, oriented towards the analysis of critical operations accomplished by ordinary people in the course of daily life, and frequently phrased as Pragmatic sociology of critic. In Critical sociology, descriptions in terms of power relations underscores the potency of mechanisms of oppression, the way the oppressed passively endure them. Pragmatic sociology, by contrast, describe the actions of human beings who rebel but who are endowed with the ability to rise up against domination and construct new interpretation of reality in the service of critical activity. I will finally try to outline a frame aiming at unifying the two different approaches proposed by the Critical sociology and by the Pragmatic sociology of critic.
(This lecture will be based on On Critique: a sociology of emancipation, Polity Press, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2011; Original publication in French: De la critique. Précis de sociologie de l’émancipation, Paris, Gallimard, 2009).