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- Title
Le « professeur Rawls » et le « Nobel des pauvres ».
- Authors
Hauchecorne, Mathieu
- Abstract
Although they occupy proximate positions within the English-speaking intellectual field and their theories of justice are often seen as being comparable, the philosopher John Rawls and the economist Amartya Sen were used for antagonistic purposes in the French field of ideological production during the 1990s. In the mid 1990s, Rawls' principle of fairness tends to flag out a position on the right wing of the French public debate (in particular in the left wing printed media) while, after he was awarded the Nobel prize in economics in 1998, Sen was considered as a left wing economist if not as a critical thinker. The article shows that these antagonistic politicizations are largely the result of the position occupied within the French intellectual field by those who introduced Rawls and Sen and by the way they participate in public debate (policy expertise in the case of Rawls, social critique in the case of Sen). Not only do these modes of participation influence the way these authors are used, but they also generate specific expectations that inform the way Rawls and Sen are read by the wider public.
- Subjects
FRANCE; SOCIAL justice; RAWLS, John, 1921-2002; SEN, Amartya, 1933-; PHILOSOPHY of economics; RIGHT &; left (Political science); NOBEL Prize winners; TWENTIETH century; INTELLECTUAL life
- Publication
Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, 2009, Issue 176/177, p94
- ISSN
0335-5322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3917/arss.176.0094