Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) is the most influential sociologist of
our time. His works take in education, culture, sport, literature,
painting, class, philosophy, religion, law, media, intellectuals,
methodology, photography, universities, colonialism, kinship,
schooling and politics. Not much remains outside Bourdieu's
sociological eye. His works are widely read across disciplines and
he was one of the most prominent public intellectuals in France.
Conversations with Bourdieu presents the first comprehensive
attempt at a critical engagement with Bourdieu's theory as a
totality. Michael Burawoy constructs a series of imaginary
conversations between Bourdieu and his nemesis - Marxism - from
which he silently borrowed so much. Starting with Marx, and
proceeding through Gramsci, Fanon, Freire, de Beauvoir, and Mills,
Burawoy takes up the challenge Bourdieu presents to Marxism,
simultaneously developing a critique of Bourdieu and a
reconstruction of Marxism. Karl Von Holdt, in turn, brings these
conversations to South Africa, showing the relevance of Bourdieu's
ideas to a country he never visited. Armed with Bourdieu, Von Holdt
takes up some of the most pressing social and political issues of
contemporary South Africa: the relation between symbolic and real
violence, the place of intellectuals in public life, the
intervention of gender in politics, the grappling with race, the
critique of education, the importance of habitus, the history and
future of class mobilisation, and the legacy of the liberation
struggle. Conversations with Bourdieu pioneers a distinctive
approach to doing social theory that is neither a combat sport nor
an artificial synthesis, but a way of pushing theory to its limits
through dialogue - dialogue between theorists and dialogue between
theory and the world it represents. The book is distinctive too in
pointing towards a new global sociology consciously rooted in a
dialogue between the social realities and theoretical perspectives
of North and South. The conversations were first presented as
Mellon Lectures at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg in 2010
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