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For Dominique

Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre

Translated by Catherine Porter

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First published in French as Enrichissement © Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2017 This English edition © Polity Press, 2020

This work received the French Voices Award for excellence in publication and translation. French Voices is a program created and funded by the French Embassy in the United States and FACE Foundation (French American Cultural Exchange)

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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-2874-5

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Names: Boltanski, Luc, author. | Esquerre, Arnaud, author.

Title: Enrichment : a critique of commodities / Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre; translated by Catherine Porter.

Other titles: Enrichissement. l English

Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2020] | “First published in French as Enrichissement, (c) Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2017”--Verso. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “This book offers a major new account of modern capitalism and of the ways in which value and wealth are created today”--Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019035403 (print) | LCCN 2019035404 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509528721 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509528745 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Commercial products--Europe, Western. | Capitalism--Europe, Western. | Cultural property--Economic aspects--Europe, Western. | Europe, Western--Commerce. | Europe, Western--Economic conditions.

Classification: LCC HF1040.9.E84 B6413 2020 (print) | LCC HF1040.9.E84 (ebook) | DDC 330.94--dc23

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In carrying out this work, we have benefited from the help of many people; it would be impossible to name them all.

We wish to thank, first, all those who participated in our seminar at EHESS between 2012 and 2016. In 2012–13, these included Michela Barbot, Christian Bessy, Sébastien Chauvin, Bruno Cousin, Emmanuel Didier, Jeanne Favret-Saada, Marion Fourcade, Marie-France Garcia-Parpet, Isabelle Graw, Catherine Grenier, Guido Guerzoni, Bérénice Hamidi-Kim, Laurent Jeanpierre, Lucien Karpic, Jeanne Lazarus, Patrice Maniglier, André Orléan, Olivier Roueff, Simon Susen, Mathieu Trachman, Emmanuel de Vienne, and Daniel Urrutiaguer; in 2013–14: Fabien Accominotti, Jacques Bournay, Delphine Corteel, Sophie Cras, Camille Herlin-Giret, Judith Ickowicz, Anne Jourdain, Michal Kozlowski, Michèle Lamont, Sylvain Laurens, Ashley Mears, Michel Melot, Alain Quemin, Thomas Piketty, Cyprien Tasset, Laurent Thévenot, Tommaso Vitale, and Loup Wolff; in 2014–15: Thierry Bonnot, Marie-Charlotte Calafat, Bernard Conein, Élice Dubuc, Stéphane Gerson, Marie Gouyon, Frédéric Keck, Anthony Kohn, Baptiste Monsaingeon, Yves Moulin, Fabian Muniesa, Frédérique Patureau, Michel Rautenberg, Bénédicte Savoy, Martine Segalen, and Olav Velthuis.

Some components of this work were published along the way, and we wish to thank in particular the editorial boards and copyeditors of Sociologie, Les Temps modernes, Teoria Politica , and Valuation Studies .

We presented our work at colloquia and in lectures at the Kunstsammlung Museum in Düsseldorf in January 2014, at the invitation of Heinz-Norbert Jocks; at the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MuCEM) in Marseille in January 2014, at the invitation of Delphine Corteel; at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in November 2014, at the invitation of the Bec Zmiana Foundation and at the initiative of Michal Kozlowski; at the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea of Barcelona in February 2015, at the initiative of Peter Wagner; at the University of Westminster in London in June 2015, at the initiative of Chantal Mouffe; on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Danish Sociological Association in Copenhagen in October 2015, at the initiative of Niels Albertsen; at the University of Turin in March 2016, at the initiative of Massimo Cuono, where we had the pleasure of a first debate with Nancy Fraser; in May 2016 in New York, first at the New School for Social Research, at the invitation of Mark Greif, where we continued our discussion with Nancy Fraser; then at the Maison Française of New York University, where we were welcomed by Frédéric Viguier and Stéphane Gerson; and, finally, at Princeton University, in the context of the Fung Global Fellows Program.