Pierre (Professor of Sociology at the College de France and Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Scienc
'This is not an autobiography.' - Pierre Bourdieu. Pierre Bourdieu's commitment to a reflexive sociology led him ineluctably to take on the final challenge of a self socio-analysis in which he recounts and analyses, more fully and intimately than ever before, his understanding of the trajectory that led him from the peasant world of Barn, through sometimes painful years as a lycee boarder, as a student in 1950s Paris and as a conscript in the Algerian War, to the pinnacle of the French intellectual and academic world. 'This is not an autobiography', he said of this work but it reveals much of...
'This is not an autobiography.' - Pierre Bourdieu. Pierre Bourdieu's commitment to a reflexive sociology led him ineluctably to take on the final chal...