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Sketch for a Self-analysis
Pierre Bourdieu
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Description for Sketch for a Self-analysis
Hardback. An outcome of the author's preoccupation with reflexivity, this book is an application of his theories to his own life and intellectual trajectory. It also offers insights into the distinguished French intellectuals of the time - including Foucault, Sartre, Aron, Althusser, and de Beauvoir. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
"Sketch for a Self-Analysis" is the ultimate outcome of Pierre Bourdieu's lifelong preoccupation with reflexivity. Vehemently not an autobiography, this unique book is instead an application of Bourdieu's theories to his own life and intellectual trajectory; along the way it offers compelling and intimate insights into the most important French intellectuals of the time - including Foucault, Sartre, Aron, Althusser, and de Beauvoir - as well as Bourdieu's own formative experiences at boarding school and his moral outrage at the colonial war in Algeria.
"Sketch for a Self-Analysis" is the ultimate outcome of Pierre Bourdieu's lifelong preoccupation with reflexivity. Vehemently not an autobiography, this unique book is instead an application of Bourdieu's theories to his own life and intellectual trajectory; along the way it offers compelling and intimate insights into the most important French intellectuals of the time - including Foucault, Sartre, Aron, Althusser, and de Beauvoir - as well as Bourdieu's own formative experiences at boarding school and his moral outrage at the colonial war in Algeria.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226067476
SKU
V9780226067476
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About Pierre Bourdieu
Over the past four decades, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory of the postwar era. When he died in 2002, he was considered the most influential sociologist in the world and a thinker on a par with Foucault and Levi-Strauss - a public intellectual as important to his generation as ... Read more
Reviews for Sketch for a Self-analysis
"A leading French sociologist and maverick intellectual.... While his influence has long been felt in academic circles in France and the United States, Mr. Bourdieu assumed a public role in the tradition of Emile Zola and Jean-Paul Sartre in the last decade, when he became what Le Monde called 'the intellectual reference' for movements opposed to free market orthodoxy and ... Read more