by Alain Touraine, Farhad Khosrokhavar · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213606095
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«La recherche de soi» is the philosophical essay by Alain Touraine and Farhad Khosrokhavar, published by Fayard in paperback (316 pages, in French).
Dialogue between Touraine and Khosrokhavar on the construction of the individual as a subject. Faced with the collapse of philosophies of history and the pressure of personal interest, the individual withdraws into themselves and discovers the desire to build themselves as the subject of their own existence; collective action is embodied in cultural movements.
Work originally published in 2000; the edition includes an index.
For readers of philosophy and sociology interested in the individual, identity, and contemporary society.
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Alain Touraine was a French sociologist. He was research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux. Touraine was an important figure in the founding of French sociology of work after World War II and later became a sociologist of social movements, particularly the May 68 student movement in France and the Solidarity trade-union movement in communist Poland.
