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Pierre Bourdieu - In Other Words - 9780804715577 - V9780804715577
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In Other Words

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Description for In Other Words Hardback. Translator(s): Adamson, Matthew. Num Pages: 233 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 457.

The influence of Pierre Bourdieu—one of the most protean intellectual forces in contemporary French thought—extends far beyond is home discipline of sociological research and thought. His work, presented in over twenty books, lies on the borders of philosophy, anthropology and ethnology, and cultural theory.

The present volume consists of diverse individual texts, produced between 1980 and 1986, which take two forms: interviews in which Bourdieu confronts a series of probing and intelligent interviewers, and conference papers that clarify and extend specific areas of his research. Now that Bourdieu's work has achieved wide diffusion and celebrity, this is an appropriate ... Read more

The texts fall into two fundamental areas. The first area provides an overview of Bourdieu's central concepts, never before clearly explained. The second area clarifies the philosophical presuppositions of Bourdieu's studies and gives an account of his relations with the series of thinkers who formulated the problems in social and cultural theory that still preoccupy us: Kant, Hegel, Marx, Durkheim, Wittgenstein, Weber, Parsons, and Lévi-Strauss. Bourdieu's visions of these figures is personal and penetrating, and in his vivacious, spontaneous responses one sees at work a mode of thought that can in itself be a liberating tool of social analysis. Bourdieu applies to himself the method of analyzing cultural works that he expounds, evoking the space of theoretical possibilities presented to him at different moments of his intellectual itinerary.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804715577
SKU
V9780804715577
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Ref
99-15

About Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu is Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France and Director of the Center for European Sociology at the École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

Reviews for In Other Words
"A synthesis and amplification to those already familiar with Bourdieu's work and a useful introduction for new readers." —Ethics "To read In Other Words is to enjoy a mind that works on many levels at once. Bourdieu seems perfectly able to reason coherently about any number of subjects (here he takes up sport, art, fieldwork, literature, philosophy, and opinion polls, ... Read more

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