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Luc Boltanski (2019)In: Graw, Isabelle/Menke, Christoph (eds.)(2019): The value of critique. Frankfurt: Campus, pp. 129-138.https://www.campus.de/e-books/wissenschaft/kulturwissenschaft/the_value_of_critique-15702.html&#160;INTRODUCTION“This essay is based on a revised version of the book On Critique which published six years ago. One of its main goals is to draw a frame aiming at integrating elements coming from two programs: critical sociology of the sixties and seventies and sociology of critical practices which started in the late eighties and is still practiced today. The first program owes much to the Work of Pierre Bourdieu who has been one of its' most prominent contributors. The second program was partly inspired by some critics who were against the precedent program of a critical sociology. Yet, tl1ese critics had theoretical and not political issues. That second program involving a pragmatic turn to a sociology of critical practice was not oriented against critique - either in reproach or praise. On the contrary, one of its main aims was to renew the possibility of a critical sociology by focusing on the critical capacities of ordinary actors and their situatedness as subjects of empirical research unfolding in ordinary life-a life where actors put into play these capacities, especially in the course of disputes.” (p. 129)