Bourdieu turns his attention to the academic world and offers an analysis of modern intellectual culture. The academy is shown to be not just a realm of dialogue and debate, but also a sphere of power in which reputations and careers are made, defended and destroyed. Bourdieu examines the social background and practical activities of his fellow academics, from Foucault, Derrida and Lacan to figures who are lesser known but not necessarily less influential. Bourdieu analyzes their social origins and current positions, how much they publish and where they publist it, their institutional...
Bourdieu turns his attention to the academic world and offers an analysis of modern intellectual culture. The academy is shown to be not just a realm ...
Drawing on his own fieldwork as well as a range of ethnographic and anthropological texts, Bourdieu unfolds a theoretical perspective which aims to do justice to the practical logic of everyday action as well as the objective structures within which such action takes place. An understanding of practice requires the anthropologist to move beyond objectivism and subjectivism and to grasp, by means of the concept of habitus, the interplay of structures and practices in the ongoing conduct of everyday life.
Drawing on his own fieldwork as well as a range of ethnographic and anthropological texts, Bourdieu unfolds a theoretical perspective which aims to do...
Now available in paperback, this important work brings together, Bourdieu's diverse writings on language, discussing in particular the relations between language, power and politics. Bourdieu argues that language should be viewed not only as a means of communication, but also as a medium of power. He also attacks the more traditional approaches to language and criticizes, in particular, the linguistic theories of Saussure and Chomsky. Applying his distinctive and highly influential theoretical approach Bourdieu sheds fresh light on the ways in which linguistic usage varies according to...
Now available in paperback, this important work brings together, Bourdieu's diverse writings on language, discussing in particular the relations betwe...
Male domination is so anchored in our unconscious that we hardly perceive it any more; it is so much in line with our expectations that we find it difficult to call into question. Pierre Bourdieu's ethnographic description of Kabyle society, a veritable reservoir of the Mediterranean unconscious, provides an extremely powerful instrument to dissolve taken-for-granted truths and explore the symbolic structures of this androcentric unconscious which survives in today's men and women.
Male domination is so anchored in our unconscious that we hardly perceive it any more; it is so much in line with our expectations that we find it dif...
In the late 1950s, like tens of thousands of young men of his generation, Pierre Bourdieu, having recently passed the agregation in philosophy, found himself immersed in the Algerian war. Motivated by an impulse that, as he himself says, 'was civic rather than political', nothing seemed more important to him than to understand the Algerian situation and provide the elements that would enable others to come to an informed judgement about it.
In extremely tough conditions and along with a small group of students, Bourdieu undertook a series of studies across an Algeria that was...
In the late 1950s, like tens of thousands of young men of his generation, Pierre Bourdieu, having recently passed the agregation in philosophy, found ...
This volume brings together Bourdieu's most important writings on art, literature and aesthetics. Bourdieu develops an original approach to the study of literary and artistic works, addressing many of the key issues that have preoccupied literary, art and cultural criticism in the late-20th century: aesthetic value and judgement, the social contexts of cultural practice, the role of intellectuals and artists, and the structures of literary and artistic authority.
This volume brings together Bourdieu's most important writings on art, literature and aesthetics. Bourdieu develops an original approach to the study ...
What is a 'symbolic revolution'? What happens when a symbolic revolutions occurs, how can it succeed and prevail and why is it so difficult to understand? Using the exemplary case of Edouard Manet, Pierre Bourdieu began to ponder these questions as early as the 1980s, before making it the focus of his lectures in his last years at the CollEge de France. This second volume of Bourdieu's previously unpublished lectures provides his most sustained contribution to the sociology of art and the analysis of cultural fields. It is also a major contribution to our understanding of impressionism and...
What is a 'symbolic revolution'? What happens when a symbolic revolutions occurs, how can it succeed and prevail and why is it so difficult to unde...
This is the first of five volumes that will be based on lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the College de France in the early 1980s under the title General Sociology . In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an intellectual discipline, giving it his own distinctive twist.
This is the first of five volumes that will be based on lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the College de France in the early 1980s under the title ...
