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Abstract

This article looks back at Jean-Louis Genard’s intellectual career, based in particular on the fine book drawn from his thesis, Sociologie de l’éthique (1992). A pioneer in many respects, the model of responsibility he develops anticipates the grammatical turn, the pragmatic turn, the ethical turn and the emotional turn that have marked the social sciences over the last 30 years but ties them together tightly in an original and stimulating paradigm. It is this powerful paradigm, which gives his life as a sensitive and committed intellectual theoretical coherence and ethical depth, that this article sets out to outline.

Keywords

• Genard
• responsibility
• moral sociology
• value
• emotion
• subject