Alain Touraine and history

Abstract

This article proposes a transversal reading of Touraine's work, based on the problematic of history and its importance in his work. In fact, few authors have the Touraine's ability to think about the present from a broad view of history, and it is to history that they refer their main categories of analysis (historicity, types of society). There are three major interpretive moments in his work. First, the workers' movement and the industrial society. Second: the new social movements and the programmed society. Third: the subject and the new modernity. In each of them, this article analyzes the ways in which the representation of history and the project of making history a structure of their work.