Reading Bourdieu on Society and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780631221869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 244 str.

Bridget Fowler

Opis

As Bourdieu's reputation mounts, this collection seeks to evaluate his contribution. It is the first critical work to analyse his entire studies of the cultural field, the first to consider his revised theory of practice and the first to test his concepts in key new areas of socio- cultural research.

Spis treści

Introduction.

Section I: Domination.

Introduction to Section I.

Thinking Feminism with and Against Bourdieu.

Bourdieu, Social Suffering and Working–Class Life.

Section II: Rationality and Politics in Bourdieu s Social Theory.

Introduction to Section II.

Reasons for Domination, Bourdieu vs. Habermas.

A Militant Sociology: the Political Commitment of Pierre Bourdieu.

Durkheim and Bourdieu: the Common Plinth and It s Cracks.

Section III: The Sociolology of Culture.

Introduction to Section III.

Hidden Agenda; Pierre Bourdieu and Terry Eagleton.

A different Field of Vision: Gentleman and Players in Edinbugh, 1826–1851.

The Mediated Manufacture of an Avant Garde : Bourdieusian Analysis of the Field of Contemporary Art in London, 1997–9.

The English Intellectual Field in the 1790s and the Creative Project of Samuel Taylor Coleridge–an application of Bourdieu s Cultural Analysis.

The Impact of Market Journalism: Pierre Bourdieu On the Media.

Bourdieu and The Art Historians.

Contributors.

Index.

Blurb

As Bourdieu′s reputation mounts, this collection seeks to evaluate his contribution. It is the first critical work to analyse his entire studies of the cultural field, the first to consider his revised theory of practice and the first to test his concepts in key new areas of socio–cultural research.

These essays focus particularly on the cultural area. The book assembles a range of art historians and sociologists of culture who interrogate the value of Bourdieu′s approach. Yet, since the mapping of the cultural cannot be divorced from wider aspects of Bourdieu′s reflexive sociology, the book also contains sustained assessments of the claims of his socio–analysis. It considers these chiefly in the form of debates: between Bourdieu and Habermas or Bourdieu and Butler, for example. It further applies his distinctive concepts to new areas, such as the exploration of time, body and language within the context of Yorkshire working–class experience. Finally, it aims to illuminate Bourdieu′s unusually wide range as an ethnographer and critical theorist, philosopher and sociologist and to assess the theories as working tools which have guided his distinctive project.