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This article constitutes a wide summary of the book Où est passée la critique sociale?
Penser le global au croisement des savoirs (Where has social critique gone. Considering
globality as the crossroad of knowledge) published by the author in 2012; it takes into ac-
count the multiple commentaries it has received after its publication. The author selects
and develops only three big topics of the dense analyses that comprise the mentioned
work: the new style of grounded theory, the relation between critique of domination
(Bourdieu) and the philosophy of emancipation (Rancière) as well as the implicit presu-
ppositions in social theories and ways of procedure. As far as the first topic is concerned,
he proposes a style of precarious and temporally global theorizing, not rigidly systematic
but in a cross-border dialog with other “games of language” (Wittgenstein) or cultural
registers, as philosophy, ordinary cultures and politically active knowledge. In relation to
the second topic, he proposes a procedure of fluid and unstable “equilibrium” (Proudhon)
between the pole of domination and that of emancipation, bearing in mind not only the
“disabilities”, but also the “capacities” of the dominated ones. With regard to the last
topic, he exposes the epistemological need of pointing out and controlling methodically
the philosophical anthropologies and the implicit “models of historicity” which account in
an unconscious way the different sociological theories. Key words: social critique, domi-
nation, games of language, philosophical anthropologies, models of historicity.
3 El autor juega aquí con el modismo francés “à son corps défendant”, que contiene el
término “cuerpo”, considerado como lugar de inscripción del habitus según Bour-
dieu. Esta connotación es intraducible en español. (Nota del traductor)
4 Letra de Pierre Grosz, música de Michel Jonasz, en el álbum Changer tout (1975)-
O también,
« Et quand les vagues étaient tran- [“Y cuando las olas estaban
quilles
On passait la journée aux îles » tranquilas, pasábamos el día
en las islas”]
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