Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2019
1 The question of the construction of reality has been revisited by Luc Boltanski for a decade now, especially with the publication of Luc Boltanski, 2011 (2009), On Critique: A Sociology of Emancipation (Cambridge, Polity Press).
2 Luc Boltanski, 2013 (2004), The Foetal Condition: A Sociology of Engendering and Abortion (Cambridge, Polity Press).
3 Arnaud Esquerre, 2009, La manipulation mentale: Sociologie des sectes en France (Paris, Fayard); 2013, Prédire: L’astrologie en France au xxie siècle (Paris, Fayard); 2016, Théorie des événements extraterrestres: Essai sur le récit fantastique (Paris, Fayard).
4 Karl Marx, 1976, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume One (New York, Penguin: 125).
5 Max Weber, 2005 (1930), The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (New York, Routledge: 19).
6 To find signs of a new form of valuation, the book builds on marketing handbooks, especially for the luxury industry, in a way reminiscent of those adopted previously in On Justification and in The New Spirit of Capitalism.
7 Walter Benjamin, 2000 (1936), Œuvres (Paris, Gallimard : 114-151).
8 Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds, 1983, The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press).