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Comment sortir du libéralisme?

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Notre société est-elle encore capable d'agir sur elle-même, de générer des idées et des politiques économiques et sociales ou s'enferme-t'elle dans une crise sans fin ?
D'un côté, les libéraux nous conseillent de renoncer à construire un avenir volontariste et de nous laisser guider par le marché. De l'autre, l'ultra-gauche se contente de dénoncer la domination et de parler au nom de victimes réduites à l'impuissance. Au centre, beaucoup, autrefois de gauche, prenant acte du vide et de la confusion qui règne sur la scène sociale, ne croient plus qu'à la défense des institutions républicaines, synonyme, ou peu s'en faut, d'ordre et de discipline.
J'ai écrit ce livre contre ces trois manières de proclamer, d'accepter, de renforcer le vide social. Sortir du libéralisme ? Rien n'est plus urgent. Mais il y a les bonnes et les mauvaises manières de le faire. La voie que j'emprunte ici passe par l'identification et la reconnaissance de nouveaux acteurs , qui cherchent avant tout à faire reconnaître leurs droits culturels et qui peuvent, sans perdre leur indépendance, régénérer l'action politique. Il est grand temps de redéfinir, au-delà de la puissance déchaînée des marchés et des communautarismes extrêmes, une politique du possible et d'obtenir de chacun l'acceptation de l'identité et des projets des autres, regardés comme égaux et différents.

164 pages, Paperback

First published January 6, 1999

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Alain Touraine

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Alain Touraine is a French sociologist. He is research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux (see also Daniel Bertaux). He is best known for being the originator of the term "post-industrial society". His work is based on a "sociology of action," and believes that society shapes its future through structural mechanisms and its own social struggles. Touraine defined historicity as the capability of a society to take action upon itself, see The Self-Production of Society (1977).
His key interest for most of his career has been with social movements. He has studied and written extensively on workers' movements across the world, particularly in Latin America and more recently in Poland where he observed and aided the birth of Solidarnosc (Solidarity), see Solidarity: The Analysis of a Social Movement (1983). While in Poland, he developed the research method of "Sociological Intervention," which had been outlined in "The Voice and the Eye" (La Voix et le Regard) [1981].
Touraine has gained immense popularity in Latin America as well as in continental Europe. Yet he has failed to gain anywhere near the same recognition in the English-speaking world. Out of twenty or so books, only about half of them have been translated into English.
He participated in 1969 at MoMA's Universitas project organized by Argentine architect Emilio Ambasz. In 2010, he was jointly awarded, with Zygmunt Bauman, the Príncipe de Asturias Prize for Communication and the Humanities.

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