New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalism In this major work, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello go to the heart of the changes in contemporary capitalism. Via an unprecedented analysis of the latest management texts that have formed the thinking of employers in their reorganization of business, the authors trace the contours of a new spirit of capitalism. They argue that from the middle of the 1970s onwards, capitalism abandoned the hierarchical Fordist work structure and developed a new network-based form of organization that was founded on employee initiative and autonomy in the workplace-a "freedom" that came at the cost of material and psychological security. The authors connect this new spirit with the children of the libertarian and romantic currents of the late 1960s (as epitomised by dressed-down, cool capitalists such as Bill Gates and "Ben and Jerry") arguing that they practice a more successful and subtle-form of exploitation. Now a classic work charting the sociological structure of neoliberalism, Boltanski and Chiapello show how the new spirit triumphed thanks to a remarkable recuperation of the left's critique of the alienation of everyday life that simultaneously undermined their "social critique." In this new edition, the two authors reflect on the reception of the book and the debates it has stimulated.
Biografie (Eve Chiapello)
Ève Chiapello ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Ècole des hautes études commerciales, Paris.
Biografie (Luc Boltanski)
Luc Boltanski wurde 1940 als Kind eines jüdischen Arztes und einer katholischen Mutter in Paris geboren. Zunächst Schüler von Pierre Bourdieu, etablierte er dann eine eigene Soziologie der Kritik. 1984 gründete er die Groupe de Sociologie Politique et Morale an der École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Kürzlich wurden seine Adorno-Vorlesungen aus dem Jahre 2008 veröffentlicht
